Project Rationalization

What this project attempts and hopes to do is giving people an honest insight into the brutality of the Atlantic campaign. It is our contention that this is a very poorly understood and quite unknown part of the Second World War.

We feel that if we allow people to forget what humans are capable to do to each other, that is a very dangerous place to get to. We also think it's very hard to remember what you can't see or experience.

One of the many perspectives to tell that story, is the perspective of the U-Boat, the archetypal weapon of the Atlantic campaign. A project that wishes to shed light on that part of the Second World War should not and cannot ignore the German submarine arm. We could have taken any other perspective to retell the story of the Atlantic campaign, indeed. This specific subject within the wider conflict though, is one that is generally even less well understood and known.

This project does not support or condone Nazism or any other form of extremist thought. We never have and we never will. It is precisely because of our utter disgust of such things, that projects like these are important. It is precisely because we should not forget about the horrors that originated from such thought, that we need to preserve this history, both digitally and physically.

It is also because of many other titles within this genre that represent the Atlantic campaign in a wildly unrealistic, exploitative manner for the pure sake of providing entertainment value, that we feel a project as our is worthwhile and important enough to pursue.

One of the inspirations for this project is the 'Fallen Oak’ project, which aims to to document the wreck of the Royal Oak, sunk by U-47 on the 14th of October 1939, as she rests on the seabed today. In writing this rationale, we have liberally taken words and thoughts from the the video you can find below and are very much of the same mind: it’s very hard to remember what you can’t see and forgetting is a dangerous thing indeed.