U-Boote westwärts
| U-Boote westwärts! | |
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| Directed by | Günther Rittau |
| Written by | Georg Zoch |
| Starring | Herbert Wilk |
| Music by | Harald Böhmelt |
| Cinematography | Igor Oberberg |
| Edited by | Johanna Meisel |
| Distributed by | UFA |
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98 minutes |
| Country | Nazi Germany |
| Language | German |
U-Boote westwärts! (in English: U-boat Westward!) was a 1941 German war propaganda film promoting the Kriegsmarine. It concerns a U-boat mission in the Battle of the Atlantic and was produced by UFA. The U-boat used for the film was U-123, which would later play a major role in Operation Drumbeat.
The film opens aboard a U-boat as it returns from a mission. It then follows the crew onshore the day before they ship off for their next mission—meeting their family and sweethearts, spending a last night at a club, and so forth. Then they ship off, soon sighting and boarding a Dutch merchant ship, which they inspect for contraband. The boarding of the ship is shown being done professionally and in a non-confrontational manner. While they are aboard the Dutch ship, a Royal Navy ship spots them and tries to torpedo them, but the U-boat ends up sinking it.
The British are shown as cowardly and . It also glamorizes death in battle: the British ship was torpedoed even though it had German POWs, and one dies, speaking of the honor of dying for the fatherland.
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