@OnePractice no. he never was a member of the Nazi Party (as far as my knowledge's concerned, and from what i know, he never really wanted anything to do with National Socialism. the only way you could consider him a nazi is that the country in which he fught for just so happened to be ruled by the nazis at the time
His eyes-HIS EVERYTHING! He is a total package. He was smart, really smart and a great commander. I read somewhere he was good at art and worked as an architect later on after the war. ml191172-You must be a girl. I don't blame you for looking at his eyes. Love the 1936? picture. It might be earlier, I think it is, but someone told me it was taken in 36. He is totally handsome and men could only wish they could be like him. They don't make officers and gentlemen like this anymore.
Wow, a survivor of a most terrible time and more so of a gallant force that had very few survivors at all (1:4 in U-boats survived the conflict). It is a pitty that man is often at his best when we are at our worst.
I wouldn't call it the most terrible time. Yes, the Holocaust and the ammount of death just makes it worse, but the 40s was just a great decade of human ingenuity and innovation.
I once saw an interview where Topp was discussing the so called 2nd "happy time" when the u.s.a. entered the war ...he sternly denounced this as untrue and insisted by that time the U Boat crews were suffering more than at any other time...and they could already tell the battle of the Atlantic would be lost ...
no watch how hitler lossed the war no german solder could belong to any political party.
lee47848 1 month ago
Was Topp a Nazi?
OnePractice 3 months ago
@OnePractice no. he never was a member of the Nazi Party (as far as my knowledge's concerned, and from what i know, he never really wanted anything to do with National Socialism. the only way you could consider him a nazi is that the country in which he fught for just so happened to be ruled by the nazis at the time
XtremeMetalMessiah 1 month ago
Haha this guys funny
mrbam11 1 year ago
His eyes-HIS EVERYTHING! He is a total package. He was smart, really smart and a great commander. I read somewhere he was good at art and worked as an architect later on after the war. ml191172-You must be a girl. I don't blame you for looking at his eyes. Love the 1936? picture. It might be earlier, I think it is, but someone told me it was taken in 36. He is totally handsome and men could only wish they could be like him. They don't make officers and gentlemen like this anymore.
66doubledevil 1 year ago
Look at his eyes..
ml191172 1 year ago
IS HE DEAD ONE OF KRIEGSMARINE GREATEST U-BOAT COMMANDERS
luismarinaperu 1 year ago
Topp, Kretchmer and Lüth, three men the allied truly had a reason to fear.
KleineHansel 1 year ago
I'm somehow related to this guy, shame I never got to meet him.
ajax123123 2 years ago
is this intervew from Silent Hunter II?
Eric Topp was a great commander... RIP
666xArly666 2 years ago 4
it´s correct, an extra video clip included in that simulator pc game
colacas 2 years ago
Great guy!
SpiritOfTheBlitz 2 years ago 2
I have met eric topp myself, for not a long time ago, to interview him in his house.
Now he's dead.
JushAllah 3 years ago
Wow, a survivor of a most terrible time and more so of a gallant force that had very few survivors at all (1:4 in U-boats survived the conflict). It is a pitty that man is often at his best when we are at our worst.
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PotatoGunsRule 3 years ago 4
Oh, well put.
"It is a pity that man is often at his best when we are at our worst. "
stperkin 3 years ago
Thanks...if we can only get the rest of the world to read that AND apply it! Have a great day.
PotatoGunsRule 3 years ago
I wouldn't call it the most terrible time. Yes, the Holocaust and the ammount of death just makes it worse, but the 40s was just a great decade of human ingenuity and innovation.
NCOProductions 2 years ago
the legent
ericssson 3 years ago
I once saw an interview where Topp was discussing the so called 2nd "happy time" when the u.s.a. entered the war ...he sternly denounced this as untrue and insisted by that time the U Boat crews were suffering more than at any other time...and they could already tell the battle of the Atlantic would be lost ...
terryfl1956 4 years ago
Kpt.Topp was the Fifth most sucessfull U-Boat Commander
of WWII. Thanks for sharing this video.
CrocodileHoges 4 years ago 4
he was the third after Otto Kretschmer and Wolfgang Lüth to be exact
ch3h4b 4 years ago 6
Well, this is just plain awesome! 5/5 stars
GDHouston 4 years ago 5