From: utzoo!hcr!tugs Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Re: Nazi? Scmatzie! Article-I.D.: hcr.176 Posted: Sun Jul 25 08:39:08 1982 Received: Sun Jul 25 08:46:06 1982 References: ihtpa.114 Das Boot struck me as a very basic, ordinary war movie which was done with a little more polish than most. The impression that I got as far as fascist-anti-fascist leanings goes is that with the reduced life expectancy, abominable conditions and seemingly hopeless challenge for the U-boat crews, coupled with the frustration of a military leadership that had no feedback from the crews coupled with the fact that, with the exception of the occasional psychotic, NOBODY likes wars when they're busy fighting and getting killed in them, there was a lot of animosity with the german government and leadership. That seems reasonable. It even seems reasonable that there were always a significant number of Germans who were not thoroughly taken with the National Socialist government, and that the number of people who felt that way grew as the war dragged on. Steve Hull