Shaffer Hinz Biography

The legendary submarine U, if not for these two circumstances, I would never have touched this “deep bomb”.

My point of view should be determined from the very beginning, because I do not want to be considered a defender of any military achievements in Germany. After the war, there were too many books, films, plays that convinced that the Germans who were misleading were mostly honest people who were valiantly fought, like any Christian soldier. I do not want to belong to the supporters of this opinion, especially after a decisive attempt to introduce Field Marshal Rommel at one time the head of the personal guard of Hitler and the head of the Hitler Youth was made as not at all a Nazis, but simply a decent officer who sought to fulfill his duty as best as possible.

This nonsense is willingly bought as crackling phrases presented as a novelty and packed as a gift for the holiday. But this is still nonsense. Reading this book, you will also make a wonderful discovery: there really were no Nazis in defeated Germany, just millions of “decent Germans” terribly suffered because of those terrible things that forced them to do. You will also remember that General MacArthur discovered the same in Japan: all the Japanese to the last - just the democrats who were chewing chewing chewing gum, awaiting only the arrival of the Americans to show this.

You will remember the general readiness to welcome both Germans and Japanese - good guys who just lost a little from the right path. I also do not want to belong to the supporters and this opinion. No one can say why the Western world accepts this special type of blindness. For fascist Germany was by no means a nation of honest simpletons. They all knew what they wanted, and prepared to go all the way to achieve the goal.

Until then they won, then all the colors suddenly changed, they were absolute supporters of the idea of ​​world domination, who sincerely supported the disgusting tyranny, which, if not restrained, would omit the curtain over human freedom for all subsequent generations. Now they sing sweetly and others sing for them: “Let's love each other, let's hold your hands over the trenches.

Everything that happened was a terrible mistake. ” But in the 20th century, this mistake has already occurred twice. Twice this people, and not some other, plunged the whole world into suffering and bloodshed, pursuing his dream of boundless power. And then and now it is recognized as a mistake only because of the defeat. We forgot about it, and this is dangerous.

Among the worst of the voluntary defenders, the ideas of universal enslavement were people who served in submarines, which returned us to this book. No one, except for a maniac, sadist or romance of the sea, cannot act in defense of the underwater war. This is a cruel and disgusting form of human behavior, regardless of whether it is used by us or the Germans. This is a betrayal, no matter what flag it performs.

According to the famous Anglo-American illusion, German submarines are disgusting, ours are completely different, even wonderful. This self -conservation is not confirmed by those who themselves visited the aim of the torpedo. Of course, this is the flip side of the coin. It cannot be denied that submariners of any country are brave and skillful people. They are accustomed to fulfill their work in a real danger, which, perhaps, is a real courage.

But what makes up the work of their life - killing secretly, without warning and without mercy - is evil to the same extent as skill. Moreover, evil prevails and, if you think, it has no forgiveness. Before us is a book of a brave and smart person who was the embodiment of this evil. Having written a preface to her, I do not act as a supporter of the principle of “forgive and forget”.

The author and people like him tried to kill me and my friends for five years in a row. Until the end of the battle for the Atlantic, I had a disgust for them and was afraid of them. I now have a disgust for them. But it would be right now that the struggle is finished and the German submarines are disarmed, try to understand the other side. We must find out what the picture of the war on the other side of the periscope is similar to understand what forced these people to act and, acting, kill.

We learn about the preparation of young submariners, about their initiation into a special type of killers. We learn what they felt, seeing their victim, and, on the contrary, when, as it often happened, they themselves became a victim, and the deep bombs rumbled and rumbled around them.