German WW2, U Boat 534 at Birkenhead Docks, Merseyside, England
Posted on 04/19/2014 2:50:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Type VIIB & Type VIIC were the most numerous U-boat classes. Then there were the long-range Type iX’s.
Early in the war they could push the Type VII’s across the Atlantic supported by specially modified supply subs known as “Milch Cows”. But the Allies systematically eliminated those.
That’s amazing, the black box battery must of died in the 50s.
“They were taking to the a secret hide out so the 3rd Reicht could rebuild & it’s leaders could live out their lives in leisure.”
I know for a fact that is true. The 4th Reich is alive and doing very well.
(’: One little mistake... ;’)
And it’s upside down, actually N566.
Back in the diesel age?
I’ve never seen anyone shirk at calling them ships and I and my uncle actually worked on them. No one would ever call his Ohio a boat. No matter the name of our company.
Yea the U Boat guys were a sneaky bunch.
Like some one pointed out, at the end of the war they did did a lot of transportation for escaping Nazis...
The U Boat guys became so good at hauling stuff around after the war, the decided to form a company that still in business today
You might know them as U Haul
German WW2, U Boat 534 at Birkenhead Docks, Merseyside, England
No, it was “boated”.
Back at the Naval Academy we’d have been ripped for calling a sub — any kind — a ship. Plebe Knowledge was hammered into our heads.
Yard workers may have different traditions.
How come when you send it on a truck it's a shipment, but when you send it on a ship it's a cargo?
Even better. ;-)
I got to see a program about Wanda Jackson instead. She was the first female rockabilly singer and dated Elvis. She’s still rockin’ and quite a lady.
The fact that they’re trying to get publicity makes it “the pride”. To fool those people who believe those stupid stories about Nazi leaders escaping on subs full of treasure. Name one, please.
I think that was mostly freelancer activity. The top Nazis were either killed in the Bunker, or captured while trying to escape and were killed, arrested, or (in the case of Himmler) killed themselves. Some of the mid-level Nazis managed to flee in vehicles (e.g., Mengele just got in his car and drove home from the death camp, then made his way I think to Switzerland, and left for S. America), others on foot, and still others turned themselves in to western forces (e.g. rocket genius Von Braun and most of his staff; about 150 of the rocket people wound up working for the Soviets).
Those who were POWs were interrogated, most cooperated with that, and some were placed under house arrest, others in internment camps, some both; others (e.g. “Sepp” Dietrich) were jailed, then tried and given prison terms (I think his was for the pre-war ‘execution’ of Ernst Rohm, for which he did ten years) or hanged, and in a few cases were acquitted.
British intelligence spent a few years after the war assassinating some who weren’t considered worthwhile to try, but had done something that stuck in the British craw. The Soviets indoctrinated the surviving German armed forces stranded in the east, or executed or gulag’ed them if they wouldn’t play ball.
Stalin also had every Red Army soldier photographed sharing cigarettes and the moment with the western allies at the end of the war, and those who could be identified and were still alive were sent to the gulag.
German officers (particularly SS and Gestapo) who fled Germany after the war typically wound up in S. America, but they got there under assumed names (or sometimes not even) via the ocean liners and such which were commonplace at the time. Hundreds fled with the help of “ratlines” which were nearly entirely run by ex-Nazis and wartime collaborators. A great many of the fugitives (and there were many, many who did this) returned to Germany from time to time, to visit relatives or in some cases to stay if everything was cool.
Some, like Klaus Barbie, really couldn’t take that chance. He wound up working for one of the Bolivian gov’ts I think, doing what he did best. Sez here that when the gov’t fell, he was extradited to France. One of his old Nazi proteges during that last gig in Bolivia would up getting in a fight over a woman, and the young rival killed him. So, scratch those two.
Don’t quit your day job to become a copy editor. The truth is secondary to the sizzle.
You mean the U-boats that practiced unrestricted warfare along the US coast during WW2 that the press didn’t report on so as to protect FDR?
A distant cousin of mine on my grandmothers’s side was Kurt Student. Somehow there was communication between them even during the war leastwise I’m led to believe. Love to see those letters. When another cousin was shot down during a bombing run over the German border There was so far my understanding was a effort to contact him to see if he would get better treatment.
However it wasn’t needed he made his way back to France through the underground and back to England. He was awarded the DFC..He told of an episode while there which was later depicted in a movie. While sitting in an outdoor cafe was told to move. As the Partisans ambushed some Germans.
Student was tried in Hamburg for war crimes but was set free or received a light sentence. He was for a time Chief of the General Staff planned the invasion of Poland and was noted for the drop on a Belgian strong point. Both he and I were “troopers” so I guess that runs in the family.
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