Schlitt For Brains
Never thought I’d find something like this, but a World War II Nazi U-boat captain, 27-year-old Karl-Adolf Schlitt did not know how to use the newly-installed head facilities, including flushing the commode, and managed to sink his own boat. He claimed he was elsewhere when the “water leak” occurred, but in fact, everyone knew he was in the head and it was his fault.
U-boat 1206 was an advanced technological marvel of the Type VIIC, with some bodacious improvements in armaments as well as an advanced commode that was supposed to flush its contents downward and away from the boat, into the ocean. Instead, Schlitt managed to send it all over the boat.
Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", Historical
And the Schlitt hit the fan.
The Schlitt hit the fan???/Groan
Gives a whole new meaning to the term, “Shit’s getting real deep.”
Lap it up, Jeff.
*grin*
Who knew that Daniel Bernath had relatives in the German Submarine Service?
That’s nothing. Hack Stone once cleared out a bar in Pohang when he flushed the shitter, and North Korean saboteurs sent it back up the pipes and flooded the place.
“If you haven’t been to Pohang…”
*grin*
So this submariner was a officer in Germany’s Brown Water Navy?
Hah! 🙂 🙂 🙂
Sounds like he has blackwater experience . . . . (smile)
Vellllllly Interwesting…..
Adolf = Adam?
Schlitt = Schiff?
Related??
One sunk a U-Boat with his Scheiße….
and the other is sinking his political party with his Scheiße.
Back when I was a young PV nothing on my first tour in Germany urinals in bars were frequently tiled covered walls with a trough at the bottom. I was once surprised to see porcelain urinals mounted on such a wall and stepped right up to do my business. When finished I went to flush and finally noticed no plumbing was connected to the urinals. Urine still flowed more or less into the trough and I had managed to piss all over my Hush Puppies.
Friends and I went to Germany about nine years ago. Because most of us are retired Army, we stayed at the Edelweiss Inn at Garmisch (by the way, would highly recommend this place to all who would be able to get a room there).
Anyhow, when our plane landed in Munich, one of my buddies came out of the men’s room laughing his ass off. We followed him back into the men’s room, and there, in every toilet, was a plastic fly embedded in the porcelain to be used as an aiming point. Laughed our butts off.
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/oh-those-crazy-germans/
https://www.edelweisslodgeandresort.com
In a rare fit of common sense, since March of this year retirees can again use the Edelweiss facilities in Garmisch, albeit on a space-available basis (those stationed in Europe get priority). For almost 4 years recently, use of those facilities was restricted to those stationed in Europe.
https://www.stripes.com/news/some-us-troops-and-veterans-now-barred-from-garmisch-s-edelweiss-resort-1.359019
https://www.army.mil/article/222448/new_authorization_expands_eligibility_for_guests_at_edelweiss_lodge_and_resort_in_garmisch_germany
Things have really changed at AFRC. Back when I was pissing on my Hush Puppies 7th Army Schools had automotive maintenance training at Murnau (later moved to Vilseck) 24 klicks up the road from Garmish. Back then there were a couple of hotels and the Green Arrow Inn. No way were unaccompanied peons getting into one of the hotels, but there was always room at the Inn if you didn’t mind sharing a room with a stranger. The Inn was a rambling building reminiscent of wooden WW2 hospitals of the time. Got to spend a couple of weekends in Garmish at $1 a night that way. Finally got to stay at a AFRC hotel when units were rotated through the one at Berchtesgaden for three days after we got back from Desert Storm.
Those troughs were very practical, you didn’t even need to aim.
I also seem to remember they had two types of toilet paper; the sandpapery kind and the waxed paper kind.
Before leaving Germany I drove my POV to
Antwerp for shipping to CONUS. Stayed in a
local hotel room overnight and was amazed to
see a shitter right next to the bed.
Tough trying flush a turd down that thing and
you had to straddle it. Damn foriegners.
U Boots had toilet bowl seats mounted on the deck rails to use in safe waters. Bilges were loaded with diesel oil to get them into north American waters, men were issued 4711 cologne which is still made today but most of the men sent the bottles home to moms or girl friends. bulkheads were not insulated so a big sweat problem with produce, Older types had the attack periscope in the conning tower and the larger one down in the control room, later boots type VII’s going up to type 1X’s had both scopes down in the control room. Before I retired, I must have around 10+ books on these WW2 boots. scratch built 3 model plastic boots and ordered mail order parts. Last one I started was a 1-400 scale of The infamous Erich Topps dancing devil U-552 boot. I had to cut out the sides of the hull and install scratch built and ordered parts. The U-552 was the one that sank the WW1 4 stack flush deck destroyer Reuben James, DD245 while on convoy duty before the US entered the war. Topps 1st watch officer (Eins Vei O) was the one that actually called the shot.
Cool hobby Jeff.
The U-Boat Captain whose name is Schlitt
Sat right down to take a shit
His business was all done
After cleaning his hairy bum
Close the valve he did not check
All that waste was on the deck
The situation was so dire
As the water got much higher
At the end the crew lost hope
As the Captain lost the boat
That’s the tale of Captain Schlitt
It’s not a fable and that’s no shit
That’s embarrassing!
Reminds me of the scene in “Operation Petticoat,” where Ensign Stovall is trying to explain to the Army nurses how to flush the head.
I’m still trying to figure out what the purpose of that “shelf” in the German crappers was for.
Had to have been something Schiffty,
I’m still trying to figure out what the purpose of that “shelf” in the German crappers was for.
Had to have been something Schiffty.
Déjà vu.
I swear I read this twice.
Is it the Matrix changing something?
*looks carefully inside Bud light can*
I make typo errors regularly. My fault on that one.
TAH recovery is sometimes difficult with my marginal connection. Also got a cranky keyboard.
Damn; that’s a good one. Thanks for the funny story.
Damn. What a way to go . . . . (smile)
Probably left the seat up.
That type of commode/toilet had valves that had to be opened and closed in a certain order. One of the books I owned had the whole poop on the story and the valve’s operating sequence. Before this type came out, waste was sent out through the torpedo tubes when there wasn’t any ships in sight.
I’m sure that was a VERY Schlitty situation for all on board!
I can’t believed that I got out punned on the Schlitty incident.