Das Boot

I loved the film Das Boot and recently watched it again.

I really enjoyed series 1 and loved the way the story line was split into two but closely linked. One following the crew of the U-Boat and the other following the French Resistance.
 
No one has been brave enough to have a go at making a decent film from German/Nazi perspective - Das Boot had elements, but it was still 98% of us U boat crews hate the Nazis and the War, but we have been almost forced to fight. Das Boot film was set in December 1942 and first half of 1943. The U boats were on the run, we had broken their Enigma Code and they did not know, we had. Allied air cover across the whole of the North Atlantic hunting surfaced U boats, Allied cargo ships were always escorted, and the German Navy had run out of new recruits. The U Boats were psychologically running on earlier victories. It would have been more interesting to me to start in 1940 when the U Boat crews were very enthusiastic and wanted to starve British people and sink our Merchant Navy and nearly did and then go through to 1943.
 
No one has been brave enough to have a go at making a decent film from German/Nazi perspective - Das Boot had elements, but it was still 98% of us U boat crews hate the Nazis and the War, but we have been almost forced to fight. Das Boot film was set in December 1942 and first half of 1943. The U boats were on the run, we had broken their Enigma Code and they did not know, we had. Allied air cover across the whole of the North Atlantic hunting surfaced U boats, Allied cargo ships were always escorted, and the German Navy had run out of new recruits. The U Boats were psychologically running on earlier victories. It would have been more interesting to me to start in 1940 when the U Boat crews were very enthusiastic and wanted to starve British people and sink our Merchant Navy and nearly did and then go through to 1943.

So, start off in the 'happy time'?

By the way, do you not think Downfall covers the end from a Nazi perspective?
Also, I think Babylon Berlin did a pretty good job at the fall of Weimar/Rise of Nazi's.
 
Itv obviously difficult to make anything that shows the Germans in a victorious or justifiable cause but there are films dramas that do show a more rounded view the war.

Generation War (German: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter, translated as "Our Mothers, our Fathers") is a German World War II TV miniseries in three parts.

is arguably the closest to what you are describing. It tells of a German family and they fought the war from german side. It was shown on bbc ( that’s where I saw it ) but it the first drama shown in Germany that wasn’t about their defeat. It was seen as controversial as it did make the Germans as victims as much as demonising them for their actions.
 
Jo jo rabbit shows a German side of sorts as well it shows the banal almost normalcy of life in the reich.
 
Itv obviously difficult to make anything that shows the Germans in a victorious or justifiable cause but there are films dramas that do show a more rounded view the war.

Generation War (German: Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter, translated as "Our Mothers, our Fathers") is a German World War II TV miniseries in three parts.

is arguably the closest to what you are describing. It tells of a German family and they fought the war from german side. It was shown on bbc ( that’s where I saw it ) but it the first drama shown in Germany that wasn’t about their defeat. It was seen as controversial as it did make the Germans as victims as much as demonising them for their actions.
Excellent series. It was on Netflix UK a few months back.
 
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