U97, a play in three actsA commander of a German U boat UB-116 plans and executes a suicide attack on the British fleet in Scapa Flow in the final days of WW I. Based on real events and well researched, there can be no victory for the crew. The moral dilemma is agonizing, but clear. Honor or dishonor, but at what price? |
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Admiral Reinhold Adolf boat British Brown on Resolution C. S. FORESTER Cecil Scott Forester coffee Commander Hoffmann Commander Lucas Commander Spiegel Comrade Engel control room course crew Cuxhaven dear depth charges devil door Emsmann Engel Oh Engel Yes English entered eyes for'rard Forester Frau Bodicker Frau Erdmann Oh Frau Krause Frau Reinhold Oh Fräulein von Treiber gentlemen Good-bye Grand Fleet Hamburg hand Hard aport heard Hempel honor Hoxa Sound husband Imperial German Navy Iron Cross Karl Lerbs killed Kriegsmarine Liese Lieutenant Weber Lucas Oh Lucas Yes mean meters mutiny naval Oberleutnant Oberleutnant zur Oh yes Otto Pause periscope photograph play propellers Rear-Admiral Reinhold Midships Reinhold Thank Ritter Sailors Scapa Flow ship sinking Six knots Spiegel Oh Spiegel Yes submarine surrender talk tell There's thing thought torpedoes U-boat wait whisper wife woman women WWII