I just finished watching Das Boot for the 5th time or so.
I've always thought of it as the ultimate, most realistic U-boat movie ever (for those of you who don't know the movie: forget about The Hunt for the Red October. If you wanna see a real submarine-movie, get yourself a copy of Das Boot). I always thought it was about the war, about the 'evil' Germans against the Allies. Don't know why, but just now I realized it's not about war, it's not about Germans against Allies... It's about people...
That's what a war always is about: people. It's not about what I believe against what you believe... It's about people.

There's no way to justify a war. There's no way to justify any war, for it's about people. The Civil War? About people. WW1? About people. WW2? About people. 9/11? About people. The 'war against terrorism'? About people.

There's no way to justify any war against other people, whatever their beliefs are, whatever their skin-color is, whatever language they speak, whatever god they worship.

We human beings are supposed to be civilized. There's nothing civil about war...



Of the 40,000 men aboard German submarines in World War II, 30.000 did not return.



I also posted this text as my 'Introduce yourself'-post on one of the sickest forums I've ever seen: http://www.thephora.com/showthread.p...9319#post29319 . Enter at own risk.

Here's some links for the movie:

The Original "Das Boot"
Das Boot - The Director's Cut


PS: If anyone could get me the Ping-sound of a U-boat....