1940 A U-Boot Returns Home

UFA Tonwoche No. 491. January 31,1940. Again and again foreign newspapers report upon the success of the German U-Boots. In the last weeks at least 90,000 tons of shipping has been sunk. Here a successful submarine has returned to the Homeland.Admiral Dönitz, the commander of the U-Boot fleet, awards some of the brave sailors with the Iron Cross.

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[Charlemagne8888]

5*****

[skoblinI]

merci, mon ami!

[jegelskersex]

i herad in a documentary that the german kaptains of the subs started too become colder when they had sunk a hospital ship and recued many of the folks who was in it, and an american fighter bomber opened fire upon them even when the deck of the sub was full of people, and forcing them to dive..

is it not more cowardice to sit in a plane and drop something on a sub?

[howanet]

ich komme aus marokko and gut video

[Farbar1955]

@jegelskersex At that time it was not American fighter bombers who went after the subs. It was the British (and really any other Allied aircraft) because they were good at it. Dropping a bomb on a sub is not cowardice, it is war. It is always ugly. To drop the bomb or not drop it, there is no good decision here.

[lee47848]

all of you saying uboat commanders had no honor our submariners did the exact same thing thats why admiral doenitz was not executed.as ordered by chester nimitz

[uboot1967]

Die Stunde hat geschlagen....

Sonnige Gruesse aus Griechenland

[uboot1967]

@OnePractice Please,read some history written also from germans....

Don't read only the books of the 'goods'.

Germany had no other choice but war.Read some books about the problems that Germany was facing the years before 1939.

England and France blocked the ways to the oil of middle east and Germany was depended on the oil coming from british and french refineries.As you understand,such a big industrial country like Germany couldn't accept it.Like USA today....

[russhattuk]

@jegelskersex They wouldn't have needed to rescue anyone if they hadn't sunk the hospital ship in the first place.

[Adamlondon999]

...were you were you would know that many U Boat commanders risked their boats and crews helping survivors. This is well documented, and Karl Doenitz made it a pilicy to not do so after several U Boats were sunk executing this policy. The Kriegsmarine generally pursued a non-nazi and, under the circumstances, pretty noble approach to warfare. Given that they had the highest attrition rate of any armed force in the war, I think we should show them the respect they deserve. They were very brave m

[Adamlondon999]

@OnePractice I guess you aren't a student of history. If you wee

[OnePractice]

Some Germans massacred survivors of ships they had sunk. Gutless. The good news is that the Good Guys won the war and most of the U-Boat crews are at the bottom of the Atlantic. If only they hadn't listened to their Fuhrer.

[wervolf149]

@skoblinI merci, mon ami? Dreck juden! Arbeit macht frei!