As a german I was confronted with WW2 a lot in school (well, we had to learn a lesson, hadn't we?) and although I haven't seen this submarine film you are talking about I have to state something general about war movies we get to see in the telly, expecially about ww2. No matter which side the heroes are. No matter who is going to have his share of glory or to be honored by remembrance. There is only one point important. war is a very, wery cruel business, and whoever is taking part in it is marked until death. even my parents who were born in the last years of ww2 are marked, they survived hamburg burning in the bomb nights huddled up in some cellars as small children and still get panicked when a slow, big propeller plane is humming in the air.

So whoever makes a war movie and portraits war as a field of endless bravery and heroism is guilty of war propaganda. There are to much such movies. There are some who try to show the truth. in my opinion "das boot" tries it, portraying the claustrophobic athmosphere down in the tube, and "private ryan" tries it too, starting with the big massacre szene on the strand. (although to be a "good" war movie" private ryan should have been shot in the last fight to make clear the senselessness of heroism.)

thank god there is no movie showing the bravery of german reichswehr officers in stalingrad, or at least when they exist I haven't seen something like this. but all this films where american tanks cross the rhine, brits play foxtail with rommel in africa or officers salute each other over fields of dead troopers in dugouts along the western front are just drek. who watches a war movie must get tears in his eye and swear to "study war no more".

besides, in german language "history" is the same word as "story", "Geschichte". Man should think about this more often. Storys change everytime they are told, because every narrator wants to deliver a message.