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U-Boote westwärts! (1941)

Anti Biritsh and Dutch Nazi war propaganda classic

[10/10 · 24 November 2014]

After the Movie there was a discussion about it .Was this a Nazi propaganda film? Yes it was ,But so was Hollywood's Action in the north Atlantic too an American propaganda film during the war.In Germany the government has banned the film from home video and are only showing it at the F.W. Marnua Institute with discussion afterwords.In the U.s.a.It's not banned on DVD home video,but, the mainstream broadcast classic film stations and mainstream distributors are politically correct against showing it or distributing it on home video.It available through specialty only.This was the first pro war Nazi propaganda film to be shot in a real submarine .It was also the first time a camera was place on board for the submerging sequences .The plot revolves around a bunch of Kriegsmarine on a U boot who go on a furlough before they are called back.Josephs Sieber,playing Boatman Buttgereit comes home to a children of 4,wheres the mother?Karl John,two in a city,has a problem .His girl friend is pregnant ,played by Ingeborg Senkpiel, and need to get married.Kriegsmarine Friends played by Clemens Hause and Herbert Klatt are in love with the same women,played by Carsta Locks.When Klatt takes her out to café,with Michael Jary and his swing Band,nope!it's a band alright but only plays the Nazi patriotic march and song," Waiting my Girl there in the home",conflict arises when they are confronted by Hasse.She sneaks out.Then there's Heinz Englemann.He's home to listening to his girl friend ,played by Ilsa Werner ,who's a singer,her voice is dubbed in this film,who sings the same song and has not answer his proposal about marriage.The Request concert shows up in this film and unlike the movie,Ilsa Werner sing in this film on the radio,although dubbed,and the propaganda song is sang by the Nazi Choir on the radio too ,but, they are all called back to fight ,the good guys,the British.Carl is so frustrated that he could not get married and that his child will be a bastard,then Herbert Wilk send a message to have them married by Proxy,in which Ingerbors is aided by Wilk's wife ,played by Clementia Egies and Ilsa ,at home.Boy !this plot is exactly almost like action in the north Atlantic.How did Warner pick up the plot?There's a very brutal scene in which the Krieg's blows up a boat with three Brits,played by German actors speaking English Phonetically.There's a dutch ship that tries to sneak in plane parts ,but the Krieg boys catch them.So they set dynamite to blow up the ship while the dutch sailors jump into the sea.Joseph Sieber and the few end up getting out of the ship too late that they get caught by another British ship,but, they manage to escape with prisoners This film seem to be as entertaining as Two in the city and the Great love.,The cinema photographer of popular German silent classic and early talkies, in the united States , ,Metropolis to Blue angels,Gunther Rittau ,directed this film .Hitler;s Chief Commander of the Kriegsmarine ,Karl Donitz makes an appearance The film ends with an anti British hate song,"Some where in a distance"excellent Nazi propaganda classic,for dark film history fans 11/24/14