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     Gerd Thäter Interview - 1994
             DVD-54

Kapitänleutnant GERD THÄTER, Sharkhunters Member since 1986, was one of an extremely small group of submarine Skippers to make the passage through the Gates of Hell (Straits of Gibraltar) not once – but twice!

A combat submarine officer throughout the entire war, almost all of those years as a Skipper, GERD remembers this combat, his two passages through Gibraltar, and his last boat U-3506, one of the three Type XXI U-boats still entombed in the Lost Bunker.

He tells about it in this 1994 interview with Sharkhunters.

GERD came from a German navy family – his father was a U-Boat Skipper in World War One and served again in World War II; his brother also served in the Kriegsmarine then in the Bundsmarine later on.  GERD always joked that he was the black sheep of the family – his father retired as a Vizeadmiral (three stars), his brother retired as a Konter admiral (two stars) but GERD retired as Fregettenkapitän (junior Captain).  He had a quick sense of humor and that is shown in this DVD.

Sharkhunters found his Type XXI boat (U-3506) in a bunker in 1988!

Want to see clips of this film?  Click below.
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.............and here is another funny scene  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-URlgqy0hs

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