The Grey Wolves: Echoes from WWII

War Documentary hosted by Michael Leighton, published by Edgehill Publications in 2007 - English narration



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This is the tragic story of the U-boats at war. Brave men fighting a losing battle against odds they could never hope to overcome. Out-numbered, out-gunned and out-thought, the U-boats were justifiably known to their crews as 'iron coffins'. Somehow the U-boat fleet rose to the challenge and even managed a brief flicker of success before their inevitable fate enveloped them.
The U-boat war encompassed a campaign that began on the first day of the European war and lasted for six years, involved thousands of ships and stretched over thousands of square miles of ocean, in more than 100 convoy battles and perhaps 1,000 single-ship encounters. In the 68 months of World War II, 2,775 Allied merchant ships were sunk for the loss of 781 U-boats. This is the story of that massive encounter from the German perspective.
Grey Wolves captures life on board a U-boat, first hand accounts in text, letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, relaying tales of the mundane and the routine, dramatic and heroic; the fear and resilience of every crew member, from Kapitainleutnant to Mechaniker.
It is a vivid, brutally realistic portrait of the men who fought and died beneath the surface of the Atlantic in what was, perhaps, the most critical battle of the war.
Written by Michael Leighton; Produced and Directed by Paul Dunn; Edgehill/Storm Bird Production

3)  The End of the Dream
Winston Churchill anxiously followed the victories and defeats of the U-Boats in the Atlantic. After the war had ended, he admitted that the U-Boat threat had been the one thing that truly scared him during the entire War.
The pendulum miraculously swung with improved tactics and technology. In May 1943 out of a force of over 50 U-boats that challenged Convoy ONS5, eight were sunk and 18 were damaged, some seriously. Such losses were unsustainable and, with allied yards turning out ships at ever increasing rates, Donitz withdrew his wolf packs from the North Atlantic. Despite the terrible losses inflicted on the U-boat flotillas, young boys were still attracted to the submarines.
As the U-boat memorial near Kiel records, by the end of the war, of the 39,000 men who went to sea in the U-boats, 27,491 died in action and a further 5,000 were made prisoners of war. Of the 863 U-boats that sailed on operational patrols, 754 were lost.

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC High@L4
Video Bitrate: 1 686 Kbps
Video Resolution: 704x540
Display Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Frames Per Second: 29.970 fps
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192 kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: english
RunTime Per Part: 58 min
Number Of Parts: 3
Part Size: 780 MB
Source: DVD
Encoded by: DocFreak08

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