Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Scene City" channel.

@perpetualgrin5804 Too old, however. He was 40 at the time. The average age of a WW2 U-boat commander was 28.
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@MarkHarrison733 Try again. Heydrich was dismissed in 1931. Canaris did not become head of Abwehr until 1935. Records suggest that Canaris was approved in his role as Abwehr chief as a compromise candidate since the commander-in-chief of the German navy, Admiral Erich Raeder, a staunch navy man, was initially opposed to his appointment but caved when Patzig manipulated the situation by suggesting an army officer for the post if Canaris was rejected. This was, of course, years after Heydrich had been dismissed. The dismissal, indeed, pre-dated the nazi regime. I don't doubt that some junior officers and crewmen wrote supportively of hitler. Whether they were sincere or not, it would have been unwise in the extreme to write adverse comments about him in letters which would be read by censors. The letters of Soviet soldiers were much the same, expressing unbounded admiration of genial Uncle Joe. You haven't yet produced anything other than anecdotes to suggest my original comment was a false or incorrect one.
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But avoid the awful much later TV series.
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The average age of a U-boat captain in WW2 was 28. Prochnow was 40 at the time. It isn't a revisionist movie. As movie about the Battle of the Atlantic, it stands comparison with 'The Cruel Sea.' Unlike the subsequent TV series, which was outstandingly dire.
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@MarkHarrison733 Actually, the Kriegsmarine was probably the least 'nazified' of the German armed forces. Certainly, Doenitz was a loyal party member, but his predecessor, Raeder was not, and had been head of the German Navy since October, 1928. Most seniors officers had served in the old Imperial Navy, and they set the tone for the culture within the Kriegsmarine.
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@MarkHarrison733 I wonder which letters? Are you aware that Raeder dismissed Heydrich from the German Navy for "conduct unbecoming to an officer and a gentleman, " I wonder?
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@MarkHarrison733 You persist in making these statements, using vague generalisations as a poor substitute to facts. Gunther Lutjens, commander of the Bismarck operation, was one of a number of Naval officers who wrote to Raeder protesting about the nazi excesses of kristallnacht. Did his protest result in Raeder sidelining him?
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@MarkHarrison733 Sorry. No more. You have your prejudices, and will doubtless insist upon them. Under such circumstances, facts are presumably meaningless to you.
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@MarkHarrison733 Oh. You are a neo. You should have said earlier, as it would have saved me wasting time, and now feeling that I need to shower in disinfectant. No wonder facts mean nothing to you. They never do to your sort.
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A really impressive movie. What a pity that the subsequent TV series which sought to trade on the name was so appallingly poor.
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A splendid film, centainly compared to the dross of the later TV series, but spoiled by the ending. Where exactly did those single engined aircraft come from in 1942, and how did they get to La Rochelle?
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