Ovation

In September 1942, a German U-boat fired on and sank a British troop carrier, The Laconia. As the U-boat Captain, Werner Hartenstein, listened to the cries of the drowning passengers he realized the ship had been carrying Italian prisoners of war, Polish guards and British women and children, and took the only course of action he could to save as many people as possible. Laconia is a tale of unexpected heroism in the fog of war.