From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: Nazi? Scmatzie! 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2310
Posted: Mon Jul 26 17:06:44 1982
Received: Mon Jul 26 17:06:44 1982

It is a well-documented fact that practically all front-line soldiers
with more than a few days' combat experience just wish the damn war
would end so they could go home.  "Combat turns most infantrymen into
pacifists."  The same would probably apply to submariners, so the
descriptions of the attitudes in Das Boot (I haven't actually seen the
movie yet) sound quite reasonable.