Das Boot - It's a long way to tiperary

In the famous german U-Boat-movie (I write here intentionally not the word "submarine", because the film is set in the time of the WW II and on a german submarine) there is a scene, where captain is having an argument with the too party-loyal 1st Watch Officer the about the fact, that the nazi-warmaschine isn't that succesful like in the propaganda claimed. To mock him further, he orders the "long way to tiperary" song to played and the whole crew joins in.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Das Boot
• U Boat
• german
• deutsch
• nazism
• propaganda
• tiperary
• second world war

[soopaman2]

This was a morale booster for them, an almost sarcastic, gallow humor kinda thing.. Great movie, with many philosophical and moral undertones.

[izabellexoxo]

I love this movie and this scene!!! Thank you!!!

[Ulimart1]

@MrJimmyboy1972 he is EXO (first WO ) but there were no political Officers in the NAvy. He was indoktrinted Young man like my older uncles they explaned me that they wer indoctrinaterd and trained as political people but there was no political Officers in the Wehrmacht

[MrJimmyboy1972]

@karnevalsjeck1984 are you telling me there were no party members in the wehrmacht, luftwaffe and the kreigsmarine?

[karnevalsjeck1984]

@MrJimmyboy1972 He is not a political officer. There was no such thing in the Wehrmacht, because Soldiers weren't allowed to be party-members. The guy you meen in the first weapon officer.

[MrJimmyboy1972]

the capitan is having a discussion with the nazi political officer here. whoe has probably never been to sea before.

[HDreamer]

In the end, one of I think two scenes that were criticised by the author of the original book. Throwing a oily rag into the face of an officer isn't a thing you should do, also an officer can't show it gets to him, destroys respect.

[krugerfuchs]

tipperary

[451harri]

@jfm4871 Yeah, and as I said, even the supporters may not have been bad people. After all, we've all seen otherwise good people go astray or ddelude themselves from time to time - it's not entirely unreasonable to think that many of the citizens who claimed to support Hitler were taken in by propaganda or temporary bad judgement.

[jfm4871]

@451harri Correct. During WW II individual Germans loved and served their country which did not make them rabid Nazi's, only German patriots, who loved what Germany was before Hitler took over in 1933 and a germany that represented over 1,000 years of history and culture that evolved into what became a united Germany under Bismark.