Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first “Happy Time,” followed by the second “Happy ...
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The Nazi Submarine Trap They Kept Secret for Decades
A German U-boat commander boards a Canadian passenger train in September 1943. He carries forged papers, speaks fluent English, and has traveled 1,400 kilometers through enemy territory. Military ...
Werner Hartenstein pulled drowning British troops from the Atlantic Ocean in September 1942. The German U-boat commander was flying Red Cross flags and even radioed for help in English. American ...
During World War 2, the German submarine U-852 sank the Greek merchant ship Peleus, after which the U-boat commander ordered the killing of the helpless survivors. At the war’s end the U-boat ...
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The sub that rejected the end of WW2
The 24-year-old German U-boat commander shifts nervously in his chair as high-ranking British and American officers bark at him across the table. The war is over. Yet Heinz Schäffer sits in an ...
On March 13, 1944, German U-boat commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck ordered his crew to machine-gun the survivors of the SS Peleus. We caught them and, after a fair trial, executed them on November 30, 1945.
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