Das Boot and It’s a Long Way to Tipperary

In a fun moment in Das Boot, the enlisted men sing along to a recording of It’s a Long Way to Tipperary

This clip is pretty complicated:

  • Das Boot is a movie about a German WWII U-Boot crew
  • the song is British and became popular during WWI amongst the soldiers. It’s associated with WWI
  • …but it was also a popular song
  • the song is about being homesick
  • because it’s British, it’s annoying to the officer who is party-line Nazi, who clashes with the captain during the story, playing to the anti-war theme of “the people who make wars (politicians) are not the people who die in wars”

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