Yup! He’s such well spoken and well read that I figured I could use some of the knowledge. So here I am

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I searched homosexual book review and it brought me here

U234 had been ordered to take cargo to Japan including 560 kg of uranium oxide. While secret for decades, this information was declassified some years ago. The speculation is that the uranium oxide on the boat was used in the second atom bomb. After Germany surrendered Uboats at sea were ordered to surface, and fly black flags. Wikipedia says white flags but they are wrong. Two Japanese officers on board committed suicide I'm the author of An Hononrable German, a WW2 naval epic told from the point of view of a heroic yet deeply conflicted anti-Nazi German naval officrer. Published in hardback, paperback, kindle by Grand Central Pubishing/Little Brown/Hachette Book Group in 2009. 4 chapters are set on a Uboat and I spent hundreds of hours studying Uboats, corresponding with survivors, reading the interrogation reports from Ft Hunt outside of DC where U-Boat officers were questioned. I actually sent the declassified typescript of his interrogation to a Uboat Kommandant. A retired German navy officer in the post WW Two German Navy read every page and made numerous small corrections. Had I known how long it would take me to research the novel I never would have written it! But I do know most details about Uboats. After Germany surrendered Uboats at sea were ordered to surface, fly black flags, and broadcast their position. (Wikipedia says white flags but they are wrong). Two Japanese officers on board committed suicide the best online source for information on Uboats is uboatnet which has all the information you could dream of although it had only started up by the time I finished my research. BTW, the Germans did not build U-Boats and number them consecutively. They might have built U 374 before they built U174 so the Allies wouldn't know how many they had. uboat.net/ Only 2 in 10 Uboats ever sank a ship. www.charlesmccain.com

no, they don't. This is what I'm thinking. I'm too polite to say anything out loud

it certainly would. The Germans don't like to publish books by Americans about Germany, according to my publisher. As to a movie, I don't have a movie agent and getting one is almost impossible so I have never really tried.

thank you.

He was twice arrested by the SS and the second time Doenitz has to personally call Himmler and apologize. He was belligerent when he drank and he punched out two SS officers. His antics when drunk were well known throughout the Ubootwaffee but he was hardly an ace of aces. He wasn't even close. He did meet Hitler but anyone who was awarded the Knights Cross met Hitler. In terms of tonnage sunk he is 37th on the list, hardly the best Uboat officer of the war. He came from a wealthy family and several officers who served in the post war German Navy told me he wasn't well liked by men who had served in the Ubootwaffe who thought he was a braggart.

Apparently it’s wrong 😑

Most historians do not support Sajers accounts. Just saying look it up brah

Its an entertaining read but alot is made up.

there is a lot of controversy about him and whether he actually served in the Gross Deutschland division. The historian of the division who had served in WW2-- first said he didn't and later said he did although neither Sajer's name nor those of the enlisted men and officers he mentioned are listed as serving in the GD. One of the biggest points of contention is He got the location wrong of one of the most conspicuous parts of his uniform ---the cuff title. He said it was on the left sleeve, but that is wrong. (Lots of reviewers picked this up). It was on the right sleeve about three inches up the right sleeve. If he wore the uniform every day for years, it would be hard to forget. There were only 2 or 3 named divisions in the Wehrmacht, all the others had numbers. All SS divisions had names except for a few raised late in the war. They wore their cuff titles on the left sleeve, the opposite sleeve than the Wehrmacht. It is a great story of life on the Ost Front, and if he made it up, he used details from what others told him about such things as fighting in the weather 35 below. A British sailor wrote several outstanding books about his life aboard British warships in WW Two, and I see them cited by historians who should know better. The guy did serve in the RN but didn't join until 1947. As the author of the novel An Honorable German, a WW Two naval epic told from the POV of an anti-Nazi German naval officer, people who lived in the Third Reich told me it was accurate in every point. So, if you have the talent and you read and interview people, you can write a convincing account of something, and Sajer probably did that. I'm certain he served in the German Army, but there is no record of him serving in the GD. The book was published during the last years of the Vietnam war and became a favorite of anti-war protesters because the book describes the horror of war so well. Ironically, anti-war protesters made the book famous.

Wait a Seconds... Rupert Suhren? My Name ist Robert Suhren.😀

Glück ab.

read the book. The author is one of the top U-Boat historians in the world with a PhD in German history who spent 30 years as curator of all the WW Two naval records including all of the UBootwaffe records in the US National Archives

@Raymond Buehner These regular army officers were gentlemen in the truest sense of the word. I think there are lots of things the 'victors' never let the world know but I could write a book about all those reasons. My mother is German, so as a youngster I had the privilege of meeting a number of WW2 veterans in West Germany during the 80's. They all seemed quiet and reserved-I remember the one that offered me pretzels-they were stale but I ate them anyway as my mom had instructed me endlessly in manners lol.

@Raymond Buehner I noticed many of these former officers moved to America after the war. I guess they couldn't live with what happened to country post WW2. I totally agree with you on our universities that were infiltrated by the KGB during the late 60's. I've also read 'Panzer Commander' by Hans Von Luck and my prized possession is 'Lost Victories' by Von Manstein. I'm so tired of these revisionist 'histories' written by Marxist educated pundits.