So I watched the movie without subtitles, which I actually found made the tenser moments of the movie more enthralling because just like the English soldiers I didn't understand what the Germans were saying. Anyway, at the end of the movie there is a bunch of German saying what happened to the soldiers after the events of the movie. Can anyone translate for me?? I really want to know what happened to everyone. Thank you in advance!
Actually, the text at the end of the movie stating what happened to the soldiers was Norwegian; not German.
Here's what happened to them (it's a true story).
From wikipedia:
In 1974, the original L2940 was recovered from Breidalsvatnet lake near Grotli in Skjåk municipality.[4] The original Heinkel wreck remains in the mountains at Grotli around 1000 meters above sea level, left untouched in the snow.[5] The wreck of the English Blackburn Skua is on display at the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton.
Horst Schopis spent seven years as a prisoner of war in Canada. A few days after they returned to England, Drew Davenport and Smith flew the mission of Trondheim. Once again, they were shot down. Davenport was captured and spent the rest of the war in a German prison camp. Smith died in the attack. Strunk is buried at the war cemetery for Germans in Trondheim. Josef Auchtor spent the rest of the war in a prison camp in Canada. In 1977, Horst Schopis received a call from Davenport at his home in Munich. Subsequently, the two visited each other in Munich and London.
In 1974 and 2004, Horst Schopis visited Grotli, but died in 2011, one year before the opening of the film, at the age of 99 years. British captain R.T. Partridge also visited Grotli in 1974, and died in 1990.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_WhiteHere's the bit they have on the true story there.
The film account is based on historical events, although the British characters' names are changed. Captain R.T. Partridge is renamed Charles P. Davenport and Leuitenant R.S. Bostock, Robert Smith. The German characters bear the names of their real-life counterparts.
Three British Royal Navy Blackburn Skuas operating from HMS Ark Royal attacked the Heinkel He 111 and made a direct hit on the Germans' port engine. The German aircraft crashed 1000 meters above sea level in a remote mountain area, miles from any major road. German tail gunner Hans Hauck was dead when the plane crashed.
Captain R.T. Partridge of the Royal Marines squadron leader of 800 Naval Air squadron Fleet Air Arm noticed a failing engine in his Skua and glided down to land on a frozen lake. He had seen a small hut nearby and he and his radio operator Leuitenant Bostock, hiked through heavy snow, to the deserted reindeer hunters' cabin. A few minutes later, they were alerted by a whistle and saw the three survivors of the German Heinkel armed with revolvers and knives.
Speaking broken German and English, the British managed to persuade the Germans that they were the crew of a Vickers Wellington bomber rather than the fighter that had shot them down. The Germans believed that they had been shot down by a Supermarine Spitfire.
Luftkampfgegner wurden Freunde ("air combat opponents became friends"), Horst Schopis wrote in his memoirs.
As it was getting dark Captain Partride suggested that the Germans stay in the hut. The two British officers left and found a small chalet, which turned out to be the Grotli Hotel, which was closed for the winter. The German crew arrived the next morning and shared breakfast. It was agreed that the Captain R. T. Partridge and the German Karl-Heinz Strunk would try to locate other people. They met a Norwegian ski patrol. Strunk shouted out "Ingleesh". The Norwegian patrol fired a warning shot at which Partridge fell to the ground and Strunk placed his hands on his head. Leuitenant Bostock emerged from the hotel, suspecting that the German had shot Partridge, but instead saw Strunk apparently reaching for his revolver. One of the Norwegians, seeing this, shot him.[6]
The two Germans survivors- Kapitan Schopis and mechanic Joseph Auchtor - were taken over the mountains to Stryn as prisoners. Later they were sent to England and on to a prison camp in Canada, where they remained until 1947. The German tail gunner Hans Hauck was given a memorial stone which still stands near the Grotli Hotel. Strunk was initially buried in Skjåk cemetery, then later transferred to the war cemetery in Trondheim.[7]
The British had some difficulty in convincing the Norwegians of their nationality until they showed the tailor`s label on their uniforms and found a half crown British coin. By sheer coincidence the commander of the Norwegian patrol turned out to be a brother-in-law of a friend of Captain Partridge. The two freed British airmen hiked into Aalesund, which was being defended by Royal Marines under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. As the destroyer scheduled to evacuate the British force failed to arrive, they commandeered a car and drove to the port of Andalsnes, where they were eventually returnned to Britain by HMS Manchester.
Captain Partridge and Leuitenant Bostock took part in the attempt to sink the German battleship Scharnhorst on 13 June 1940. Partridge was shot down near Stallvik in the Trondheimsfjord and captured by German troops. Leuitenant Bostock was killed in another Blackburn Skua on the same raid.[8]
Both the German pilot Horst Schopis and the English pilot R.T. Partridge have written books about their experiences before, during and after the war. The books are called "Luftkampfgegner wurden Freunde" and "Operation Skua".[9] Captain Partridge`s original Skua has been recovered from the Norwegian lake and is on display at RNAS Yeovilton.
Cheers,
Grant
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