Originally Posted by
snappel
I hear you on that, but your average German submariner wasn't running the death camps.
They all had the same mentality. Few never.
You're probably getting confused between the Kriegsmarine and the Nazi dictatorship.
The Kriegsmarine was a tool of the Nazi regime.
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There were some interesting stories of insides of U-boats being tantamount to treason once they were at sea, as lots of the crews detested the Nazi movement.
Then why were they sinking Allied ships? If I hated a regime and was enlisted I would go to the most inert part of the military I could. U-Boat crews "volunteered". Many German sailors did not do too much during WW2, as their navy couldn't do that much at all. I would have wanted to be one of those men.
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