History YMMV / Titanic1943

* {{Narm}} It seems the perruquier at Tobis Films must have [[https://images.app.goo.gl/hXxLTgRmTp5QjAW79 had it in]] for Sybille Schmitz.
* PeripheryDemographic: A Russian-dubbed version of the film with the opening credits [[SerialNumbersFiledOff removed]] was screened across the Eastern Bloc as the film's anti-capitalist message resonated well with the Soviets who also took the film as a war prize as were the Western Allies who also used portions of it for stock footage.

* HilariousInHindsight: The fictional German first officer's name is Petersen. Sixty-three years later, [[Creator/WolfgangPetersen a director of the same name and nationality]] would helm [[Film/{{Poseidon}} a flick]] about a similarly doomed ocean liner.

* {{Narm}} It seems the perruquier at Tobis Films must have [[https://images.app.goo.gl/hXxLTgRmTp5QjAW79 had it in]] for Sybille Schmitz]]

** The ''Cap Arcona'' wasn't the only ship to sink in 1945 with thousands aboard. Several ships that were packed with thousands of German people fleeing the Soviet advance in East Prussia sank, due to Soviet submarine attacks. The biggest tragedy of them all - indeed, the [[UpToEleven worst maritime disaster]] ''[[UpToEleven of all time]]'' - was the ''Wilhelm Gustloff'', with up to ''9000'' refugees, ''Kriegsmarine'' personnel and wounded soldiers dying in the frozen waters of the Baltic sea. Every one of these tragedies dwarfed the RMS ''Titanic'' one in numbers. One of the survivors of the ''Gustloff'' was Creator/EricBraeden, who would later play John Jacob Astor in Creator/JamesCameron's ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''.

** The ''Cap Arcona'' wasn't the only ship to sink in 1945 with thousands aboard. Several ships that were packed with thousands of German people fleeing the Soviet advance in East Prussia sank, due to Soviet submarine attacks. The biggest tragedy of them all - indeed, the [[UpToEleven worst maritime disaster]] ''[[UpToEleven of all time]]'' - was the ''Wilhelm Gustloff'', with up to ''9000'' refugees, ''Kriegsmarine'' personnel and wounded soldiers dying in the frozen waters of the Baltic sea. Every one of these tragedies dwarfed the RMS ''Titanic'' one in numbers. One of the survivors of the ''Gustloff'' was Creator/EricBraeden, who would later play John Jacob Astor in James Cameron's ''Titanic''.

** The ''Cap Arcona'' wasn't the only ship to sink in 1945 with thousands aboard. Several ships that were packed with thousands of German people fleeing the Soviet advance in East Prussia sank, due to Soviet submarine attacks. The biggest tragedy of them all - indeed, the [[UpToEleven worst maritime disaster]] ''[[UpToEleven of all time]]'' - was the ''Wilhelm Gustloff'', with up to ''9000'' refugees, ''Kriegsmarine'' personnel and wounded soldiers dying in the frozen waters of the Baltic sea. Every one of these tragedies dwarfed the RMS ''Titanic'' one in numbers.

* HilariousInHindsight: The fictional German first officer's name is Petersen. Sixty-three years later, [[Creator/WolfgangPetersen a director of the same name]] would helm [[Film/{{Poseidon}} a flick]] about a similarly doomed ocean liner.

** The ''Cap Arcona'' wasn't the only ship to sink in 1945 with thousands aboard. Several ships that were packed with thousands of German people fleeing the Soviet advance in East Prussia sank, due to Soviet submarine attacks. The biggest tragedy of them all - indeed, the [[UpToEleven worst maritime disaster]] ''[[UpToEleven of all time]]'' - was the ''Wilhelm Gustloff'', with up to ''9000'' refugees, ''Kriegsmarine'' personel and wounded soldiers dying in the frozen waters of the Baltic sea. Every one of these tragedies dwarfed the RMS ''Titanic'' one in numbers.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybille_Schmitz Sybille Schmitz]], who portrayed the female lead, was blacklisted and shunned by the German film industry after the war and then possibly murdered by [[DrFeelgood her own doctor]]. Her tragic final years were the inspiration for the Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder’s penultimate film ''Film/VeronikaVoss''. Schmitz’s presence in the film only compounds its deathly sense of dread.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybille_Schmitz Sybille Schmitz]], who portrayed the female lead, was blacklisted and shunned by the German film industry after the war and then possibly murdered by [[DrFeelgood her own doctor]], her life story being the inspiration for the Creator/RainerWernerFassbinder film ''Film/VeronikaVoss''. Her presence in the film only compounds its deathly sense of dread.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybille_Schmitz Sybille Schmitz]], who portrayed the female lead, was blacklisted and shunned by the German film industry after the war and then possibly murdered by [[DrFeelGood her own doctor]]. Her presence in the film only compounds its deathly sense of dread.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybille_Schmitz Sybille Schmitz]], who portrayed the female lead, was black listed and shunned by the German film industry after the war and then possibly murdered by [[DrFeelGood her own doctor]]. Her presence in the film only compounds its deathly sense of dread.

** The SS ''Cap Arcona'', which was used as stand-in for the ''Titanic'', in the end shared the same fate. In 1945, the ship was transporting over 5,000 concentration camp inmates and was bombed by the Royal Air Force, killing almost everyone on board. It was all a plan organized by the Nazis to help get rid of war crime witnesses, in which the Allies found themselves to be unwilling participants. Bones kept washing up on the beach near the wreck for decades afterwards.

* UnfortunateImplications: It's a Nazi propaganda film, so viewing it (let alone admiring it) will cause some awkward tensions, but ''Titanic'' ended up falling afoul of this even at the time of its creation. Nazi censors ended up banning the film since its release fell at a point when Germany was suffering frequent bombing raids from the Allied airforces, and Goebbels decided that a film depicting scenes of mass chaos and panic probably wasn't going to reflect well on the Nazis in the mind of the public.

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Ironically given the film's intended purpose as Nazi propaganda, it's just as easy to interpret it as an ''anti''-Nazi film. Specifically, it has been noted that the film can also be seen as an allegory to an upstanding German citizen defiantly standing up to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, who were recklessly "sailing" Germany into disaster with their egomania, war mongering, and genocidal agenda. Given that director Herbert Selpin was arrested and probably murdered for loudly criticizing the German war effort, it's possible that he may have subconsciously incorporated his own views on the Nazi regime into the film.

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Ironically given the film's intended purpose as Nazi propaganda, it's just as easy to interpret it as an ''anti''-Nazi film. Specifically, it has been noted that the film can also be seen as an allegory to an upstanding German citizen defiantly standing up to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party, who were recklessly "sailing" Germany into disaster with their egomania, war mongering, and genocidal agenda. Given that director Herbert Selpin was arrested and probably murdered for loudly criticizing the film's naval consultants, it's possible that he may have subconsciously incorporated his own views on the Nazi regime into the film.

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybille_Schmitz Sybille Schmitz]], who portrayed the female lead, was black listed and shunned by the German film industry after the war and then possibly murdered by [[DrFeelGood her own doctor]]. Her presence in the film only compounds its deathly sense of dread,