U-Boat Quotes

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.

Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

We played an old U-Boat factory in East Germany once and that was massive - 35,000 people.

The toilet from time to time imparted to the boat the scent of a cholera hospital and could be flushed only when the U-boat was on the surface or at shallow depths, lest the undersea pressure blow material back into the vessel.

Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and into the submarine and so forth, I found that I was growing increasingly sympathetic to him. He's a young guy, 30, handsome, well-liked by his crew, humane.

I do think hubris played a role here as well, the belief that the Lusitania was too big and too fast to ever be caught by any submarine, and that, in any case, no U-boat commander would think to attack the ship because to do so would violate the long-held rules governing naval warfare against merchant shipping.

It's not my intent to write definitive history. 'Dead Wake' isn't a definitive history of the sinking of the Lusitania. It's my account.

I like the movie 'Das Boot,' the German film made in the '80s. I found out it was a series that was made into a film for the U.S.