i am not anti-German and you will find that the British did not murder millions of poor Jews and the disabled. And yes the Bombing of Germany was not a good thing to happen. The reason WW2 started was because the German's wanted to rule the world.
ordinary soldiers don't blow up pasanger ships and let women and children die. The U-boat scum knew that women and children were on board. they did not even tell the Royal Navy that women and children were adrift. No one survived. As for the bombing of german cities, the germans bombed england first and to think we would not do the same then that is silly.
OMG, shut up! The Germans weren't the only one who killed innocent women and children. I am really pissed when a brit speaks ill about the german soldiers!
You Brits with your anti-german attitude are so annoying. It was among other things one reason, that ww1 and as a consequence ww2 started.
@chad24ist If you can't see that these were just ordinary soldiers doing their jobs, then you're a heartless individual. They also felt guilty because of their lack of success, and thought that the continuing bombing of German cities was therefore also their fault. Get out of your spiral of hatred.
Just heard about this film.... it's good to see a film depicting the "bad guys" in a sympathetic light being considered a must-see classic. I think it's vital that the youth of the former allied powers gains an insight to both sides of the war, instead of viewing the Germans of the time as the historical "villians". I know it would have been tough fighting a war against the Axis, but I can scarcely imagine the horror of having to fight under the Nazi regime...
@451harri you're right. if you saw this movie you will have noticed that the u96 members never said "sieg heil", "heil hitler" or something like that. the director said once in an interview he tried to show people and not germans, french or allied. if gonna you watch it go for the directors cut or tv-version. they're longer than the movie theater version.
I watched this first when I was only 21 and during the film, I realised I was rooting for the "enemy" which taught me for the first time the futility of war, which is most probably why the film was made in the first place.
@Holowachuk Klaus Wennemann died some years ago at relatively early age and M. Semmelrogge is constantly making a fool of himself with drugs and prison sentences.
For all the others the "Boot" has been a breakthrough. Shall I give you their names so that you might "google"?
They won't catch us this time! Not this time! They haven't spotted us! No, they're all snoring in their bunks! Or, you know what? They're drinking at the bar, celebrating our sinking! Not yet, my friends. Not yet!!
awesome movie to watch late at night..... and the old german tv version is like 5 hrs long. One of the Best Movies ever made cause of the atmosphere and awesome acting. Im german and dont have to read the subs... if you don't understand every word i guess its hard to get it. I love it !
Ethnic German people will always be my brothers, we will never fight our German brothers again! I spit on the grave [including Churchill] of the leaders that sent our boys off to fight our brothers!
@88maltek Mag sein, daß ich mich irre, aber für mich klingt´s mehr bayerisch als norddeutsch. Bin übrigens auch aus Deutschland - und zwar Bayern. Kannst also wieder atmen...
@88maltek "Johann, das Gespenst" wurde gespielt von Erwin Leder, einem Niederösterreicher. Da dieser Dialekt sprachgeschichtl. zum "Bairischen" gehört, ist er eng mit dem Bayerischen verwandt - deshalb auch der Wiedererkennungswert für mich. So falsch lag ich also gar nicht. ;)
I'm German and I don't know a single fellow countryman who doesn't know this movie.
This was more than just a movie to Germans when it was published in 1981, because it was the first movie that showed the Germans the way they are ... as human beings who suffered a horrible war with all its contradictions.
@Lintflas 1977's Cross of Iron directed by Sam Peckinpah was also groundbreaking in this regard. It is a lesser known film however and an underappreciated one..
@Lintflas I love this movie because it portrays life at sea as it really is: cramped, dirty, and nerve wracking. I was in the US Navy and I've never seen an American film portray life at sea the this one does. American cinema is shit.
I just watched it 2nd time this week because of its pure epicness, seen it many times but its just sad what they had to go through and then it had to end that way, the "kaleun" is good sea captain, as he prefers sailing before the war... Did you guys know there were actually Uboat that got stuck to the sea floor and got up by this same maneuver, I read it on book, cant remember its name
@ManOutaBricks1 Why not... after group livesaving for countless hours, after working and working their asses off in almost 1000ft depth with lack of oxigen an a number of serious damages to the boat... After survival of all this, I think they would have had the right to group masturbate. But brave german wouldn't do it, as long as the camera is running. ;)
@ExceedingNormal the ending is quite annoying but does add that WHAT! to the end of it all that you remember. also quite accurate as their submariners nearly all ended up being killed though various means during mid war
Soldiers are soldiers. Duty is duty. Orders are orders. One does the best one can to defeat the enemy. Politicians give speeches about why the nation fights. Every soldier's duty is to fight. I have the greatest respect for US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan; yet I wholeheartedly disagree with the politics that sent them there. Soldiers do what they're told. Politicians tell them what to do. It is the responsibility of the people to tell the politicians what to do. By the way, GREAT MOVIE!
Very good film...but a sad real background story.Too many had to die because of this nazi fuckers and his conservative supporters. They all voted for the "ermaechtigungsgesetz" which gave hitler all the power.Only ONE party resisted (members of the communists were already in conentration camps): The Social Democrats (SPD)..."Wehrlos aber nicht Ehrlos - deffenceless but not without honour"...before they also went into concentration camps.The speach has to be: "NIE WIEDER !!" ... NEVER AGAIN !!
I just love this movie scene -what an epic script and directors masterpiece,
and the Doldinger Soundtrack also does its best for giving us great athmospere .
sometimes this movie makes my eyes becoming wet especially this scene is so wonderfull! well, i love machines these old machines really have some spirit and especially the old ones made by real engineers have something so special. For us Germans machines are our friends and sometimes the machines give us somthing back. In the right moment
I know but we Germans cant ever build bad machines, we allways try to do it to most exacting standards...and believe me I am very proud that my Grandfather was Doctor Engineer at the Henschel Works Kassel he was one of those champs in designing and buliding some of the best engines and machines of the whole
@Haffschlappe The M.A.N. engine/generator at the KelsteinHaus (Eagles Nest) still is operational today.
I am no Panzer expert but I read that one of the flaws of German panzer engines is that they were built too well, why build an engine which can last for years when even the best Panzer may only survive months or weeks in battle?
Great movie shows people the stupidity of war... People think war is about killing "bad guys" when they are killing people just like them in a different uniform. Another great movie to see is Letters from Iwo Jima which is much the same theme although from a different cultural perspective.
Awesome movie. When I visit my dad we get drunk in the pub and put this on when we get back to his house, never see the ending we always fall asleep, its a long film. I bought him a collectors edition dvd of it in a cool metal case for Christmas. Visited him last week he gave me the book, the book is very cool too, lots of detail they couldnt get into the movie, highly recommend it if you like reading :) LOSE!
@MDS1500 den Text hat mir mein Sohn vor kurzem als SMS geschickt, nachdem sein alter Frachter mal wieder Motorschaden hatte und sie mitten im Englischen Kanal liegen blieben. Nachdem sie die alte Maschine wieder repariert hatten, schrieb er: Ich glaub der läuft. wer sagt denn, dass Marmelade keine Kraft gibt!
Ich mußte so lachen,! Sohn leiht sich DVD von Mama- ist begeistert und setzt das gleich in die Praxis um!
@RFKFANTS67 He was a cousin yes. And your right he died as you know April 15, It is a shame he only had to surivive around 8 more weeks until the end of ww2. Alot of uboats were lost around or near the English channel late 44 early 45..usually mines or depth charged. Do you have any picyures of him? Our family doesn't and we've searched far and wide:{
Me being a dick: 40,000 Germans died every week or two on the Eastern front in the late war. That's the entire U-boat force. They were brave and suffered terribly but I'm sure the guys on the Eastern front sleeping in frozen foxholes and shooting down waves of Russians wished they were in the Kriegsmarine.
Bottom line was it was a bad, bad time to be a German male of fighting age. Or a German female of any age, once the Russians showed up and started raping everybody.
@lancelot55 What did they do there? The usual procedure since the dawn of man; loot, rape and pillage, kill anybody affiliated with the original government, force your ideological and cultural standards down their throats in order to assert their new status as prisoners, etc.
The Russians later did the same thing to Germany and all of Eastern Europe. Stalin insisted on it. The difference is that the Nazis, like the Japanese, sucker punched their enemy first.
See how you suddenly "root for the bad guys?" When infact, they were just like any Brit, Jap, US Troop. = They were SOLIDERS. Doing their job, following orders. They didn't hate jews, they "hated" the enemy... You'd know why I wrote "Hated" if you actually went and watched this movie. Go see it.
@aztaclalz Very well said. I am a submariner, have been for years. These men were sailors, like me, like my friends. I feel more kinship with these submariners than I do with any stranger from America.
@aztaclalz Aye mun, dictatorships can happen anywhere. You should watch Persepolis if you haven't seen it(it's an autobiographical film about growing up in Iran), the creator specifically chose to make it an animated film so it would appear universal rather than just Iranian, and it is also dubbed in several languages(as opposed subtitled) including english. You'll like that. If you don't mind me cutting in... :-D
@aztaclalz I concur with you statement, it was about the soldier not the cause, non the less most of the officer corps especially the navy that fought for Germany and not Hitler.
@aztaclalz They were sailors or submariners .... they were not soldiers. Admiral Erich Raeder didn't ever do the Nazi "Heil Hitler armed extended out" salute - he always saluted his men with the standard American style salute. I have always rooted for the Nazis. In essence they were honourable soldaten - that is to say excluding the political avenues of the Nazi Party - they were loyal and no different were sailors and pilots of the Third Reich. They were all obsequious to THE FATHERLAND!
@svartekaptenen That is the salute form common to the time and slightly different from the British. It was more known as the "standard military salute" and I wasn't endeavoring to signify its roots of inception in my comment but more so referring to the germane time period of its accepted perception in the world which was mostly for American Military Personnel. I understood that its original origins are not entirely clear and that it was, if I'm not mistaken, initially utilized in Rome.
The german navy was the least nazi-fied branch of the german military ( the luftwaffe was the one most adjusted to nazi ideology, the wehrmacht lay inbetween).
@1315229 Buchheim went to sea on u-boats. You'd imagine he'd have a firm appreciation of the crews he sailed with. He makes no apology for portraying one of the crew as a devoted nazi, but stresses the point that such ardour does not permeate the entire crew.
@aztaclalz You are an idiot. Many, many German soldiers did, in fact, hate Jews. Most Germans either actively hated the Jews or were apathetic towards their slaughter. For instance, by 1945 over 1.25 million men were serving in the SS. All members of the SS were rotated in and out of the camps as guards. The SS were only the most ardent of the murderers. That's not counting members of the Gestapo, Einsatzgruppen, and the general Heer. The Nazis fucking suck.
@IAmAnonymousJew Who cares? Did you also know that everybody who served in the ss didn't serve in the camps? But hey who cares they were brave men who faught to the death for their country
@rammesteiner Yes, those who served in the Allgemeine SS were rotated as guards in and out of the camps. That means that every member of the SS served as some point as camp guards. Now, if you mean the Waffen SS, then yes, not all SS members were guards.
Whatever, I liked the movie. I just don't like Nazis.
i am not anti-German and you will find that the British did not murder millions of poor Jews and the disabled. And yes the Bombing of Germany was not a good thing to happen. The reason WW2 started was because the German's wanted to rule the world.
chad24ist 1 day ago
ordinary soldiers don't blow up pasanger ships and let women and children die. The U-boat scum knew that women and children were on board. they did not even tell the Royal Navy that women and children were adrift. No one survived. As for the bombing of german cities, the germans bombed england first and to think we would not do the same then that is silly.
chad24ist 1 day ago
@chad24ist
OMG, shut up! The Germans weren't the only one who killed innocent women and children. I am really pissed when a brit speaks ill about the german soldiers!
You Brits with your anti-german attitude are so annoying. It was among other things one reason, that ww1 and as a consequence ww2 started.
SoSollEsSein1 1 day ago
I have nothing but contempt for this lot. They murdered my uncle who was on a liner. is it no wonder the Royal Navy hated them
chad24ist 1 week ago
@chad24ist If you can't see that these were just ordinary soldiers doing their jobs, then you're a heartless individual. They also felt guilty because of their lack of success, and thought that the continuing bombing of German cities was therefore also their fault. Get out of your spiral of hatred.
Porkion 2 days ago
And as usual it takes a Snipe (no matter what nationality) to save the day....
satxguy71 1 week ago
Deutschland war fantastisch!
farmersfuel 1 week ago
It takes a real balls to do this job!
UnpaBGD 1 week ago
watch it, watch it, watch it!
Holowachuk 2 weeks ago
Great movie, great music!!!
01Chopin 4 weeks ago
Great, Great movie, (great as a war movie and great as an anti-war movie).
The ending is heartbreaking and shows it best..
MCMicel1979 1 month ago
Das mein eigener Sohn mal LI wird hätte ich nie gedacht, vor allen Dingen nicht 1981 als dieser Film erschien--- Jung--ich bin stolz auf dich!
cabrio379 1 month ago
Just heard about this film.... it's good to see a film depicting the "bad guys" in a sympathetic light being considered a must-see classic. I think it's vital that the youth of the former allied powers gains an insight to both sides of the war, instead of viewing the Germans of the time as the historical "villians". I know it would have been tough fighting a war against the Axis, but I can scarcely imagine the horror of having to fight under the Nazi regime...
451harri 1 month ago
@451harri you're right. if you saw this movie you will have noticed that the u96 members never said "sieg heil", "heil hitler" or something like that. the director said once in an interview he tried to show people and not germans, french or allied. if gonna you watch it go for the directors cut or tv-version. they're longer than the movie theater version.
akruber1 1 month ago
"Man, those Krauts can build a submarine." -U571
johnnyponny4 1 month ago
german engeneering!
CorsaC16SEi 1 month ago
1 toilet 50 men!
d0m4ntuxas 1 month ago
"YA MISSED!!!!!!"
chobit389 1 month ago
I just <3 that part when those diesels comes back to life again :')
thepit2114 1 month ago
I watched this first when I was only 21 and during the film, I realised I was rooting for the "enemy" which taught me for the first time the futility of war, which is most probably why the film was made in the first place.
BradBrassman 1 month ago 6
interested how the actors look today?
watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=VT1bMXFiLLM
Holowachuk 1 month ago
@Holowachuk Klaus Wennemann died some years ago at relatively early age and M. Semmelrogge is constantly making a fool of himself with drugs and prison sentences.
For all the others the "Boot" has been a breakthrough. Shall I give you their names so that you might "google"?
Jeansschwimmer 1 month ago
I did not know the this film was over 30 years old.
Thedoctor19000 1 month ago
THEYRE ALIVE!!!!
dalekrueger 2 months ago
Come on people...Why is the top comments always the same? Use your brains when you do "thumbs up".
laksemann 2 months ago 4
thank you for this
micho1410 2 months ago
I have director's version. Excellent movie have to say!
demsu69 2 months ago 2
this entire movie was the best movie scene ever.... trust me
VNVgirl 2 months ago 20
They won't catch us this time! Not this time! They haven't spotted us! No, they're all snoring in their bunks! Or, you know what? They're drinking at the bar, celebrating our sinking! Not yet, my friends. Not yet!!
darkironsides 2 months ago 4
Wer sacht denn das Marmelade keine Kraft gibt........:)
TheCorsar81 2 months ago 2
awesome movie to watch late at night..... and the old german tv version is like 5 hrs long. One of the Best Movies ever made cause of the atmosphere and awesome acting. Im german and dont have to read the subs... if you don't understand every word i guess its hard to get it. I love it !
EureDudehelt 2 months ago 2
das ist auf keinen fall Norddeutsch, komme aus S-H und so spricht hier kein Mensch :-), aber sieht ja so aus als ob das schon geklärt ist :-)
gumda472 2 months ago
german diesel engine. nothing like it :)
cheleasulii 3 months ago 3
One of my favorite movies.
Mojomahley 3 months ago
ER LÄUFT!!! HARHARHArrrHArrrr!!!
warschaedel 3 months ago
wonderful programe
reginaldwalterdavid2 3 months ago
deiser film ist superklasse
TheTanksoldier 3 months ago
crazy germans! LOL
tigre15WI 3 months ago
The laughing from LI is realy mad...... The Boot is one of my favourite Films ever.
voreifelrambo 3 months ago
The GREATEST war movie ever made. Saw the movie when it first came to the US 30 or 40 years ago.
Winker54 3 months ago
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greatest anti-war movie, if you please.... ;-)
bachtin10 3 months ago
Ethnic German people will always be my brothers, we will never fight our German brothers again! I spit on the grave [including Churchill] of the leaders that sent our boys off to fight our brothers!
Britcenturion 3 months ago
@Britcenturion
TO PEACE AND BUSINESS, MY FRIEND!
CONSIDER YOURSELF A MEMBER OF THE GREATEST CULTURAL NATIONS IN THE HISTROY OF MANKIND!
bachtin10 3 months ago
@Britcenturion mein brother!!!!
Herman6644 3 months ago
I love that film, I could list my favourite bits and explain what I think it's about but seriously go to your DVD shop and get a copy.
johnnybriggs118 3 months ago
@netkongen ikke lag skam på norge plz
Draggis92 3 months ago
"Jetzt hoit durch, verdammt no amoi - HOIT DUUURCH!!" and 1:00 - in love with the diesel engine... touching scenes!
Solfari03 3 months ago
@Solfari03 what means?
locutusdiborg88 3 months ago
@locutusdiborg88 It means: "Hold on, damn it, hold on!!" He speaks in Bavarian dialect.
Solfari03 3 months ago
@Solfari03 thnks
locutusdiborg88 3 months ago
@locutusdiborg88 Gladly
Solfari03 3 months ago
@Solfari03 nothing speaks in bavarian!!!!! i am from germany!!! this is NORDDEUTSCH!!!!!
88maltek 3 months ago
@88maltek Mag sein, daß ich mich irre, aber für mich klingt´s mehr bayerisch als norddeutsch. Bin übrigens auch aus Deutschland - und zwar Bayern. Kannst also wieder atmen...
Solfari03 3 months ago
@Solfari03 lol
CrazyKraut20 3 months ago
@88maltek "Johann, das Gespenst" wurde gespielt von Erwin Leder, einem Niederösterreicher. Da dieser Dialekt sprachgeschichtl. zum "Bairischen" gehört, ist er eng mit dem Bayerischen verwandt - deshalb auch der Wiedererkennungswert für mich. So falsch lag ich also gar nicht. ;)
Solfari03 3 months ago
@Solfari03 lool....hast ja recht;-))))) das lag dir wohl noch auf dem herzen, was?;-)
88maltek 3 months ago
@88maltek Hmm - jepp, du hast Recht... jetzt sind wir uns einig. ;-)
Solfari03 3 months ago
@Solfari03 ;-)
88maltek 3 months ago
i cannot think of one reason why anybody would not like this movie
amaurythewarrior 4 months ago
Workers of all lands unite.
majorMcpharter 4 months ago
@majorMcpharter die Marxist pig!
Britcenturion 3 months ago
@Britcenturion Not yet comrade.
majorMcpharter 3 months ago
@majorMcpharter thats a shame!
Britcenturion 3 months ago
186 hand up, 0 hand down. THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER
centhralzplanetz 4 months ago
ALAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARM
netkongen 4 months ago
I love every character in this movie.
achmedlolol 4 months ago
@achmedlolol you love even the 1st watch officer ?
amaurythewarrior 4 months ago
nothing beats a german diesel engine. it will run in any conditions
cheleasulii 4 months ago 4
Ach! Himmel! Die verdamnt Rot und Gelbe Flugzeugen! Tauch! Tauch! (Just kidding!)
Thanks for posting.
RocketTCoyote 4 months ago
One of the best WW2 films ever made, alongside Downfall.
And both German films. I salute you!
rufinoman 4 months ago
Great movie, agreed. And realistic as well.
A war patrol on a submarine was mostly very boring and dull, with brief periods of being very excited or very-very frightened.
"Das Boot" got the feeling just right.
agwhitaker 4 months ago
@agwhitaker exactly!
Buledde 4 months ago
Great Movie
NoeltheAiiroPearl 4 months ago
i asked these people from germany if they knew about this movie, they said no. I almost wantd to make them pick their teeth up from the ground
yammer123 5 months ago
@yammer123
You probably asked some stupid teenagers.
I'm German and I don't know a single fellow countryman who doesn't know this movie.
This was more than just a movie to Germans when it was published in 1981, because it was the first movie that showed the Germans the way they are ... as human beings who suffered a horrible war with all its contradictions.
Lintflas 4 months ago 56
@Lintflas 1977's Cross of Iron directed by Sam Peckinpah was also groundbreaking in this regard. It is a lesser known film however and an underappreciated one..
DouglasEdward84 1 month ago
@Lintflas I love this movie because it portrays life at sea as it really is: cramped, dirty, and nerve wracking. I was in the US Navy and I've never seen an American film portray life at sea the this one does. American cinema is shit.
lovesthestars09 3 weeks ago 3
the laugh at 0:50 is hilariously scary
maccas1329 5 months ago 2
ER LAEUFT!
Holowachuk 5 months ago
I just watched it 2nd time this week because of its pure epicness, seen it many times but its just sad what they had to go through and then it had to end that way, the "kaleun" is good sea captain, as he prefers sailing before the war... Did you guys know there were actually Uboat that got stuck to the sea floor and got up by this same maneuver, I read it on book, cant remember its name
Grinch1800 5 months ago
not yet, Kammeraden! NOT YET!
FockeWulfFW200Condor 5 months ago 59
0:01 Group masturbation... ;-P
no sry just kidding...^^
ManOutaBricks1 6 months ago 6
@ManOutaBricks1 Why not... after group livesaving for countless hours, after working and working their asses off in almost 1000ft depth with lack of oxigen an a number of serious damages to the boat... After survival of all this, I think they would have had the right to group masturbate. But brave german wouldn't do it, as long as the camera is running. ;)
Hinnerk16 5 months ago
@Hinnerk16 haha, yes you're right XP
ManOutaBricks1 5 months ago
This movie was so sad and awesome and the ending just angered me
ExceedingNormal 6 months ago
@ExceedingNormal the ending is quite annoying but does add that WHAT! to the end of it all that you remember. also quite accurate as their submariners nearly all ended up being killed though various means during mid war
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xanderno1 6 months ago
Great movie!
DenisHelicopters 6 months ago
Not yet Kameraden, not yet!!!
Matthias3388 7 months ago 57
My go-to movie when I want to smell fear, perseverance, and victory.
rickey5353 7 months ago
Where are the Subturtles?
Sunburn2007 7 months ago
Soldiers are soldiers. Duty is duty. Orders are orders. One does the best one can to defeat the enemy. Politicians give speeches about why the nation fights. Every soldier's duty is to fight. I have the greatest respect for US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan; yet I wholeheartedly disagree with the politics that sent them there. Soldiers do what they're told. Politicians tell them what to do. It is the responsibility of the people to tell the politicians what to do. By the way, GREAT MOVIE!
kenanderson66 7 months ago
Made in Germany
MrChris1million 7 months ago
Very good film...but a sad real background story.Too many had to die because of this nazi fuckers and his conservative supporters. They all voted for the "ermaechtigungsgesetz" which gave hitler all the power.Only ONE party resisted (members of the communists were already in conentration camps): The Social Democrats (SPD)..."Wehrlos aber nicht Ehrlos - deffenceless but not without honour"...before they also went into concentration camps.The speach has to be: "NIE WIEDER !!" ... NEVER AGAIN !!
tausendstein 7 months ago
agreed! the tension was absolutely palpable
brabazon10 7 months ago
No yet, Kameraden, Not Yet.
STEVENRBGermany 8 months ago
Good old U-96! Type VIIc boat; never lets 'em down.
Hang on, I'm a Brit - why am I cheering on the Kriegsmarine? Cos they were heroes too, I guess. Ah, brilliant stuff!
KrillLiberator 8 months ago
Amazing movie
Gasmaskfilms100 8 months ago
"Die sitzen im Kasino und feiern unsere Versenkung!"......epic
Thermal26 8 months ago
@Thermal26
Not yet Kameraden, not yet!
kaszpiboy 7 months ago
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Haffschlappe 8 months ago
I just love this movie scene -what an epic script and directors masterpiece,
and the Doldinger Soundtrack also does its best for giving us great athmospere .
sometimes this movie makes my eyes becoming wet especially this scene is so wonderfull! well, i love machines these old machines really have some spirit and especially the old ones made by real engineers have something so special. For us Germans machines are our friends and sometimes the machines give us somthing back. In the right moment
Haffschlappe 8 months ago 3
Try that with a chinese U Boat Diesel heheh ;) :)
Haffschlappe 8 months ago 4
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I know but we Germans cant ever build bad machines, we allways try to do it to most exacting standards...and believe me I am very proud that my Grandfather was Doctor Engineer at the Henschel Works Kassel he was one of those champs in designing and buliding some of the best engines and machines of the whole
German War industry..
Haffschlappe 8 months ago 2
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Haffschlappe 8 months ago 2
@Haffschlappe The M.A.N. engine/generator at the KelsteinHaus (Eagles Nest) still is operational today.
I am no Panzer expert but I read that one of the flaws of German panzer engines is that they were built too well, why build an engine which can last for years when even the best Panzer may only survive months or weeks in battle?
rampking1 8 months ago
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Haffschlappe 8 months ago
U-96 Das Boot and 96 likes... That's awesome!
laksemann 8 months ago
Not yet Kameraden! NOT YET!!!
malawihenk75 8 months ago 6
Awesome movie! i cant understand that people dont like the movie?!
lavidaspeligrosa 9 months ago
Not yet kameraden, not yet!
SarahMacgregor 9 months ago 3
MEIERHOFER !!!! ER LÄUFT JA ER LÄUFT (INSEIDER)
DrabAngel 9 months ago 2
the music sounds like the never ending story lol
czerwonymike 9 months ago
Great movie shows people the stupidity of war... People think war is about killing "bad guys" when they are killing people just like them in a different uniform. Another great movie to see is Letters from Iwo Jima which is much the same theme although from a different cultural perspective.
ipxzor 10 months ago
Deutsche Ingenieure!
odbcodbc 10 months ago
Awesome movie. When I visit my dad we get drunk in the pub and put this on when we get back to his house, never see the ending we always fall asleep, its a long film. I bought him a collectors edition dvd of it in a cool metal case for Christmas. Visited him last week he gave me the book, the book is very cool too, lots of detail they couldnt get into the movie, highly recommend it if you like reading :) LOSE!
discodisco2012 10 months ago
Zischhhh tamm, tamm, tam, tam tam - Ich glaub ... der läuft? Ich glaub der läuft!
Das ist DIE Scene - aus DEM Film. :)
MDS1500 10 months ago
@MDS1500 den Text hat mir mein Sohn vor kurzem als SMS geschickt, nachdem sein alter Frachter mal wieder Motorschaden hatte und sie mitten im Englischen Kanal liegen blieben. Nachdem sie die alte Maschine wieder repariert hatten, schrieb er: Ich glaub der läuft. wer sagt denn, dass Marmelade keine Kraft gibt!
Ich mußte so lachen,! Sohn leiht sich DVD von Mama- ist begeistert und setzt das gleich in die Praxis um!
cabrio379 10 months ago
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Yes indeed, One of the best movies ever made!!!!!!
luiseduardo586 11 months ago
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DAETH TO THE IMMIGRANT SYMPATHIZERS, DEATH TO THE MONKEY PRESIDENT SUPPORTERS ALLAH HU AKBAR ALALALALA
yammer123 11 months ago
@yammer123
oha... calling allah is great after a hate speech does a great favor to muslims worldwide...
and in fact makes you look retarded.
but hey - allah is great and stuff
why do muslim extremists want to bomb danish newspapers exactly?
coz they insulted allah? well - i hope they go bomb you as well - since this is exactly what you are doing.
and don't forget to send my best regards to captain capslock and his shiftcrew...
JheakrynaKyAlur 11 months ago 3
You gotta love the sound of the twin diesel engines!
kzbxvz 11 months ago
The chief engineer was at climax from 0:50 until 0:53 ...
hisham77x 11 months ago
best war movie ever and one of the best movies EVER
takeri2703 1 year ago 3
deutsche wertarbeit
Schmid10001 1 year ago 5
@Schmid10001
genau.
MrSanctuary86 1 year ago
ALIVE! -gasms agaisnt engine-
TortevalToucher 1 year ago
I wish they'd survived in the end at Loriet:{ My relative commanded U1063 and was one of the 30,000 who never survived the war
RFKFANTS67 1 year ago
@RFKFANTS67 So your relation was Karl-Heinz Stephan.. Shame he was lost so near the end.
SuperAncientmariner 1 year ago
@RFKFANTS67 He was a cousin yes. And your right he died as you know April 15, It is a shame he only had to surivive around 8 more weeks until the end of ww2. Alot of uboats were lost around or near the English channel late 44 early 45..usually mines or depth charged. Do you have any picyures of him? Our family doesn't and we've searched far and wide:{
RFKFANTS67 1 year ago
@RFKFANTS67
You mean Karl-Heinz Stephan?
crazyfrywad 11 months ago
@crazyfrywad ahh yeah why?
RFKFANTS67 11 months ago
@RFKFANTS67
Wanted to see if Wikipedia got it right. I had family in ww2 fighting for france, england, germany, and the US.
crazyfrywad 11 months ago
Indeed this movie affected my mind about 'the enemy' in an impressive way.
CoolePascal 1 year ago
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cabrio379 11 months ago
Fantastic...........Just shows the hardships of WW2........fantastic movie too.
MrChill1042000 1 year ago
Not Yet Kameraden, NOT YET!!!
cntower01 1 year ago
in the english translate it means " the best melodie of mylife" In german , who said that marmalade give no power"
cabrio379 1 year ago
Eternal glory to the German Submarine crews!!!
NikiGalabov 1 year ago
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cabrio379 1 year ago
The most sad scene was when tha boot sank :(
marchrabbit85 1 year ago
I was born 5 years after this movie was made .. I would soo wan't too see this in the cinema.
resistanceunion 1 year ago
Me being a dick: 40,000 Germans died every week or two on the Eastern front in the late war. That's the entire U-boat force. They were brave and suffered terribly but I'm sure the guys on the Eastern front sleeping in frozen foxholes and shooting down waves of Russians wished they were in the Kriegsmarine.
Bottom line was it was a bad, bad time to be a German male of fighting age. Or a German female of any age, once the Russians showed up and started raping everybody.
EntropicMisanthropic 1 year ago 2
@EntropicMisanthropic So what did the fucking Germans do in USSR?
lancelot55 2 months ago
@lancelot55 What did they do there? The usual procedure since the dawn of man; loot, rape and pillage, kill anybody affiliated with the original government, force your ideological and cultural standards down their throats in order to assert their new status as prisoners, etc.
The Russians later did the same thing to Germany and all of Eastern Europe. Stalin insisted on it. The difference is that the Nazis, like the Japanese, sucker punched their enemy first.
EntropicMisanthropic 2 months ago
Indeed, this, the Gibraltar strait run scene is beyond EPIC
The tension if the engine would start. And the stunning music with it.
Mueiwark 1 year ago
See how you suddenly "root for the bad guys?" When infact, they were just like any Brit, Jap, US Troop. = They were SOLIDERS. Doing their job, following orders. They didn't hate jews, they "hated" the enemy... You'd know why I wrote "Hated" if you actually went and watched this movie. Go see it.
aztaclalz 1 year ago 133
@aztaclalz If you have the chance, read "Iron Coffins" by Herbert Werner.
He had his father in prision because he dated their jewish maid.
Werner disagreed alot with the racial policies of nazi germany, and he saw his whole nation being destroyed by the fanatism of the nazis.
Of course, he was an anti communist, devout protestan and patriot of germany, so those were his motivations to sail and hunt down convoys.
If he was a member of the party, I don't know, but he never say nothing nice of them
das81 1 year ago
@aztaclalz Very well said. I am a submariner, have been for years. These men were sailors, like me, like my friends. I feel more kinship with these submariners than I do with any stranger from America.
17thknight 1 year ago 2
@aztaclalz Aye mun, dictatorships can happen anywhere. You should watch Persepolis if you haven't seen it(it's an autobiographical film about growing up in Iran), the creator specifically chose to make it an animated film so it would appear universal rather than just Iranian, and it is also dubbed in several languages(as opposed subtitled) including english. You'll like that. If you don't mind me cutting in... :-D
SarahMacgregor 9 months ago
@aztaclalz I concur with you statement, it was about the soldier not the cause, non the less most of the officer corps especially the navy that fought for Germany and not Hitler.
WillemDafoeismyuncle 9 months ago
@aztaclalz They were sailors or submariners .... they were not soldiers. Admiral Erich Raeder didn't ever do the Nazi "Heil Hitler armed extended out" salute - he always saluted his men with the standard American style salute. I have always rooted for the Nazis. In essence they were honourable soldaten - that is to say excluding the political avenues of the Nazi Party - they were loyal and no different were sailors and pilots of the Third Reich. They were all obsequious to THE FATHERLAND!
DetroitLove4U 9 months ago
@DetroitLove4U Don't be picky, you know what I meant.
aztaclalz 9 months ago
@DetroitLove4U It is not an "American style" salute, it is in fact European. it goes back to medieval times,
when 2 knights on the road meet, they opened their visors to show that they were not hostile hence the
salute movement.
svartekaptenen 9 months ago
@svartekaptenen That is the salute form common to the time and slightly different from the British. It was more known as the "standard military salute" and I wasn't endeavoring to signify its roots of inception in my comment but more so referring to the germane time period of its accepted perception in the world which was mostly for American Military Personnel. I understood that its original origins are not entirely clear and that it was, if I'm not mistaken, initially utilized in Rome.
DetroitLove4U 9 months ago
@aztaclalz
Ive read from credible scources that most submarinerns were firm nazis.
1315229 9 months ago
@1315229 Keep listening to your "credible" sources then.
aztaclalz 9 months ago
@aztaclalz
You dont think that historians, documments and actual german submariners are credible?
1315229 9 months ago
@1315229 You keep thinking that every german soldier was a nazi then, go ahead.
aztaclalz 9 months ago
@aztaclalz
I said that most submarinerns were nazis. It was a requierment.
1315229 9 months ago
@1315229
The german navy was the least nazi-fied branch of the german military ( the luftwaffe was the one most adjusted to nazi ideology, the wehrmacht lay inbetween).
lulzwarrior 8 months ago
@1315229 Buchheim went to sea on u-boats. You'd imagine he'd have a firm appreciation of the crews he sailed with. He makes no apology for portraying one of the crew as a devoted nazi, but stresses the point that such ardour does not permeate the entire crew.
KrillLiberator 8 months ago
@aztaclalz You are an idiot. Many, many German soldiers did, in fact, hate Jews. Most Germans either actively hated the Jews or were apathetic towards their slaughter. For instance, by 1945 over 1.25 million men were serving in the SS. All members of the SS were rotated in and out of the camps as guards. The SS were only the most ardent of the murderers. That's not counting members of the Gestapo, Einsatzgruppen, and the general Heer. The Nazis fucking suck.
IAmAnonymousJew 7 months ago
@IAmAnonymousJew No one cares, jew.
aztaclalz 7 months ago
@IAmAnonymousJew
The idiot is YOU!!!! You don`t know anything about us!
Florian112RE 7 months ago
@IAmAnonymousJew Who cares? Did you also know that everybody who served in the ss didn't serve in the camps? But hey who cares they were brave men who faught to the death for their country
rammesteiner 7 months ago
@rammesteiner Yes, those who served in the Allgemeine SS were rotated as guards in and out of the camps. That means that every member of the SS served as some point as camp guards. Now, if you mean the Waffen SS, then yes, not all SS members were guards.
Whatever, I liked the movie. I just don't like Nazis.
IAmAnonymousJew 7 months ago
Yes I mean the waffen ss. No people doesn't like nazis in general but people can like the soldiers.
rammesteiner 7 months ago
@aztaclalz LIke fuck they didn't hate Jews. C'mon. Life isn't some nice little flower garden.
ecnalubma696969 6 months ago
@ecnalubma696969 And if you think that every soldier hated jews - you're nothing but a jew, friend.
aztaclalz 6 months ago
@aztaclalz It's the music
VersusARCH 4 months ago