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Replied by Damni on topic Movies & Series

Chindits ladies and gentlemen....

And this cool one about Lorient U-Boot base

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Replied by snowman on topic Movies & Series

I just found it

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Replied by Nikita on topic Movies & Series

Damni wrote: And this cool one about Lorient U-Boot base

Thanks Damni for this video. This seems to be a very recent work because, as you can see on the video, at 01:40, the central reservation between bunkers K1 and K3 appears with the concreted ground. This is the result of works made less than two years ago by the municipality of Lorient, to transform this space into parking lot and into zone of operation for the trucks which have to reach the site. In its home state, the base of Keroman included, on this space between K1 and K3, a unique device for moving the submarines on rails, as well as we can see it on this picture from the German WW2 archives.

EDIT : Anecdotally, these works were very criticized by a wide part of the population, including myself, who sees a loss of historical heritage there, remembering that the entire city was destroyed because of these bunkers and that they have to remain as they were built, as a testimony.

Further to these criticisms, the mayor of Lorient, Mr. Norbert Métairie, let know that these concrete works of the ground were, i quote, "reversible".


EDIT 2 : Also, if i may add my five cents, there's a missing part in this documentary, because it doesn't speak about the K4 bunker, which was planned to be a bunker for railway station, facilities and garrison, and was started to built but never finished. This K4 bunker proves, if needed, the delirium of gigantism of the nazis and how much they believed in this base to grow up more and more as to become their main weapon in west, during this reich supposed to lasts for thousand years...

The K4 bunker ( cars give the scale )

For all information about visiting the Lorient-Keroman submarine base :

Meeting spot : K3, Commandant-L’Herminier street

Price list : 6€, reduced 3€, free for children less than 7 years. Subject to availability.

Contact:
- Phone : 02 97 02 23 29 (plus French prefix)
- Mail : patrimoine@mairie-lorient.fr
- Website : http://patrimoine.lorient.fr.

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Replied by Nikita on topic Movies & Series

Also, concerning this post by Damni about the Keroman base, i think that this documentary pay a right tribute to Jacques Stosskopf, by showing well his role in the history of Keroman and the choice which he had made, feign the collaboration with the nazis to better inform the Allies about the operations of the U-boot of Keroman, using his engineer's privileged position and in spite of the hostility of numerous French people working on the site, among which some people simply wanted his skin, believing that he was a traitor and a collaborationist. With hindsight, we can imagine today all the strength and courage which were needed for this man to go at the end of his commitments, and which he finally paid with his own life.

Thanks, Mister Jacques Stosskopf , even without any weapon in your hands, you were a real Resistance fighter, and not one of the last hour.

RIP, wherever you are now.

Jacques Camille Louis Stosskopf

Commandeur of the Legion of Honour
War Cross with palms

The memorial plaque, on the north wall of the K1

Submarines base
General Engineer Stosskopf
Arrested and deported by the Gestapo on February 21, 1944
for his activity within the Resistance.

Missing.

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Replied by Nikita on topic Movies & Series

Note : Don't worry about those Japanese (?) subtitles in the video, this is not the point...

Ok, this is about a 1957 movie, so a bit dated in some aspects, but this also is not the point ...

The point is this scene, where a captain shows to his second in command and all his crew that, at war, there are the good officers, with their established rules, their standard procedures, their well learned lessons and their often predictable behavior...

And there are the others, loose cannons or geniuses, with their experience, their feeling, their talent and their knowledge of the power that a non-standard decision can have...

Something finally between "the wrong move at the right time" and the "i win because i'm going against all the rules" by the German general Marcks, who rightly oversaw Operation Overlord where nobody didn't expect it .. .

The enemy below
Dick Powell - 1957

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Replied by snowman on topic Movies & Series

Looking forward to see if this is a good movie at all

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