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0:02Chapter 1: Tell me your name, please. 300s · Speaker 1
Tell me your name, please. Well, I'm Eric Topp, T -O -W -P, and I'm born 1914 and living here in Bonn. Great. And it's Rear Admiral and Eric. I'm Rear Admiral. And Eric is E -R -I -C -H, correct? Spelling? That's right. It's Eric. Your name…
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5:03
So I had to ask my engineer and the watch officer what to do now. We have only half our speed and the other engine can break down too. So we decided not to give up but to go into the narrows at Liverpool. And, well, it was a risk, of course…
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6:15Chapter 3: Well, at 50 meters, when you have. 307s · Speaker 2
Well, at 50 meters, when you have... When the escort has located the submarine, then 50 meters is not much. Not only finding the submarine, but locating it exactly. comparatively easy and so the danger of being destroyed is very great and s…
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11:23Chapter 4: is looking at everybody. 302s · Speaker 1
is looking at everybody. The main object, the main goal is the captain, of course. What is he doing? That's my nature. I can't say why. I never have had fear. I always was relying on myself. attacking that convoy? Did you do it in the dayli…
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16:27Chapter 5: Of course, I knew that it would cost 100 lives. 72s · Speaker 2
Of course, I knew that it would cost 100 lives. 100 lives would be destroyed. And I must really say that was horrible. And to me, I never forget that. But may I add something here? Because we are always attacked in mind, attacked. that we d…
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17:40Chapter 6: What prior to May 43, how successful were U -boats? 301s · Speaker 1
What prior to May 43, how successful were U -boats? Were you confident in the U -boat prior to May 43, or was it? Well, you know that I left my boat in May 1942. So I have no personal experience after that time. But if you ask me about the …
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22:42Chapter 7: That is, of course, the question. 305s · Speaker 1
That is, of course, the question. Well, first we had developed the so -called snorkel. The snorkel was enabled, did give us the possibility to be submerged during the whole trip, only showing the snorkel, the small part of the snorkel, but …
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27:47Chapter 8: was multiplying and, well, of course it is easy to now, after the time, in a historical dimension, it is to criticize. 149s · Speaker 2
was multiplying and, well, of course it is easy to now, after the time, in a historical dimension, it is to criticize. It is certainly very easy. But, you know, I was at that time in command of the tactical flotilla and we heard of these ac…
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30:17Chapter 9: Well, his answer is that of course there were many planes that were covering the Atlantic. 74s · Speaker 1
Well, his answer is that of course there were many planes that were covering the Atlantic. air many very long range planes and planes of ships and starting from ships. And he said, we have to keep these flotilla of airplanes over the Atlant…
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31:32
Do you think it was fair or right to keep sending submarines out? It is easy after the war to, as I already said, to have critics. And anyhow, it was the way they first went to multiply the air defense on board of a submarine to have severa…
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36:33Chapter 11: He didn't answer. 62s · Speaker 1
He didn't answer. They were asking again. No answer. Then I knew that... well, that he was lost. And that was a great loss to me personally, because we have been together in France, in Paris. We had our female friends and we have been livin…
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37:37Chapter 12: you wrote down? 300s · Speaker 2
you wrote down? Can you tell me? Well, it is written down, but I cannot say personally in words what I have written down, but it mirrors my soul at that time. What sort of feelings do you have about all your fellow submariners who were lost…
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42:38Chapter 13: bound us. 53s · Speaker 1
bound us. together and you compare it with the materialistic life we have today, then you see the difference of that life and of the life today. It cannot be compared and therefore we will never forget it. Do some room tone and we'll be don…