Unfair portrayal of Admiral Lutjens in SINK The BISMARCK (1964)
Alright granted an old movie... I was just now watching it for the umpteenth time and listening to the actor portraying Lutjens having the crew do a mass Heil Hitler and talking about "tales of Nazi victories." It suddenly struck me as odd because if he was a fanatic Nazi, would the West Germans have named one of their US built Adams class DDGs for him? Turns out he was in fact anti-Nazi, refused to use the Heil Hitler salute (even in Hitler's presence!), and was half Jewish. Anyway seems like he was a "good" German, in spite of the image the Brits gave him in that film.
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