The U-505 in Chicago is another great WWII submarine specimen. Incidentally, A wonderful WWI submarine book is “Fips: Legendary U Boat Commander...” Here’s a student film about this great story: th-cam.com/video/SZvL_0BTSis/w-d-xo.html.
In 1945 a danish salvage firm called Switcher raised a type 21 elektoboot in prestige condition and hauled it into a port name Marstal. The danish Navy was not interested in taken into service , and why they diclined the offer stands a little in the dark. Anyhow , sometime in 1946 the almost New elektoboot was scrapped - would have been a nice museumpiece like the Wilhelm Baur lying in wilhelshafen in germany
It never ceases to amaze me how something so incredibly complex was mass produced in such a relatively short period of time, and this is just one type of one service in one country.
@@archiecoolsdown5854 Too bad WWII Germany wasn't bright enough to ignore the wonderfully outright tyrannic ideas of criminal dictatorship by such puny, hate filled, psychotic ignoramuses such as Hitler, Goering, Himmler and Goebbels (just to get started).
I find the Atlantic War _endlessly_ fascinating. The psychological element really intrigues me. How patient the hunt was. Weeks or months out on the open ocean. Boredom and tedium. Long treks, massive storms. Listening for ships, stalking them, plotting torpedo solutions, taking the shot. The hunter then became the hunted. Being hundreds of feet under the surface, hearing the Asdic pings and propellers above, remaining silent, weathering incessant depth charges. Seldom in war is it such a pure pitting of mind, endurance and strategy to deadly consequence as the U-boat necessitated. Thanks for the video, this is a treasure to be able to see. One day I hope to visit 995 myself. I’m very glad some U-boats still exist, as they’re a testament to an incredibly fascinating period of history. RIP to all those lost in the Atlantic….on both sides. Regardless of ideology, some truly courageous men.
@@hanskloss9482 l disagree, they are gonna be brainwashed by the system and made bad. But not all of them . For lots of them, usually those who are underprivileged, enlisting into the military is the only chance to get a decent education. But they are not aware that they usually sooner or later will be used as Canon food and don't realize what they themselves are getting into, so the privileged can hit themselves on the shoulder after having provoked another unnecessary war with a country which is not in line with the US in order to keep the economy rolling. Instead of always making war with other parts of the world and bomb them back into the stone age, why isn't the US not really setting a real example and help these countries to get back on their feet bringing up their economy, too and then start trading with these countries, similar to the Marshall plan with the germans. I think that would help both sides and those countries would stop hating the US and terrorism against them would die down, because they would see how good the US really can be. Just saying.
I am guessing the military teaches men on how to die. So, it may not be as scary. When the water is coming in, the lights probably wouldn't be on. They would have seen nothing.
I bet many shot themselves,was the crew allowed a pistol each tho? I'd say not due to the psycolgical pressure living on one of those things,only the captain maybe had a pistol? I'd want a pistol in my pocket if I faced that demise
Considering the waterpressure, a direct hit by a mine or bomb would lead to sudden death wihout warning. A wounded Boot on the other hand would be as terrible as you see in the Movies….
Having served in the British Royal Navy submarines for 20yrs totally understand and appreciate the German perspective of u boats and salute ANY submariner around the world 👍great video thank you
My mother brought me here when I was 16. She was born and raised in Kiel during the war. Even at 16 I was six feet tall and the guide made fun of me saying I could never be a submariner. I am glad they upgraded the lighting in the sub as it was much darker back in 1980. For me it was nice to be able to touch history. The near by memorial really touched me emotionally. Seeing all those that were lost at sea was awe inspiring to me. I was so glad that my mom shared this with me.
I can confirm that. Whoever comes to Laboe should not only visit U-995 together with the Naval Memorial but should also take a detour to the U-Boat Memorial at Möltenort to pay his respects to the sailors.
Thanks for the walk through. I'm fascinated by the German U-Boats and watching Das Boot every now and then again. I can't get over the amount of complex machinery on board. A latch or gauge in every direction. Just incredible how these things were built and the men that served aboard. Sad truth that only 25% came back home.
I am playing a ubaot simulator game onnmy oculus vr headset. Its funny how accurate they made the virtual one. Im familier with the layout and the controls on the real boat based on the game!
Fun Fact: Im a German Solider since 2012 . i was in This Boat in 2006 or 2007 with My Parents and this was the Day i told My Father i want to go to the German Marine after the School. And now im a Oberbootsmann (Staff Sgt) on a german Bundeswehr Marine U Boot... Best descision in My Life onl because the visit in this boat
Well, my turn at war came in the opposite spectrum, dropping bombs from a B-52 D at 40,000 ft. However we were just as cramped for space as that submarine, but there were only 5 of us in the fuselage. I was really surprised to see so much wood used in the submarine. The amount the wheels and valve handles is stupefying. How they ever knew which was the right one use in an emergency boggles the mind. You are to be commended for making such an informative and visually pleasing video. Wunderbar.
Saved metal by using wood. I was struck by the same thing when I toured the U-Boat in the Chicago Museum many years ago, That and the mind boggling tight spaces. I literally could never imagine being in that tiny metal box under attack. Where that got these men to go down the first time is difficult enough but how in God's name they got them to go down again and again and again until they died.
I've been through the U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry, in Chicago. I also took a tour through the American submarine at the naval museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The refurbishment of this Submarine is top notch. Great Job to whoever did it.
When I was a small boy, my father took me to see the U505 being dragged across the roadway to where it sits at the museum. I was too little to see so I got to sit on his shoulders to watch. As the many years that have gone by since then, it is one thing I remember and smile.
Even though they are primitive compared to today, I think WWII submarines are so cool! I also have a lot of respect for how brave the crews had to be, regardless of what side they were on.
Thank you for this very informative and interesting upload! My parents used to know a man who served on a U-Boat during World War Two. He was one of the nicest people ever who spoke openly about his experiences during his service. May he rest in peace.
Wonderful video...really well done. One can't help but try to imagine these ships in wartime/battle conditions. Can you imagine being in a damaged ship, fighting to save it, whilst STILL managing to continue to fight? NOTHING but respect for these men, regardless of which side they fought for.
I’ve been aboard quite a few museum ships in the US including subs, battleships etc. Funds for maintenance are always hard to come by, so sadly many of them are in poor shape. It is great to see that this boat is in a high state of preservation. Thanks for the video.
THEY HAVE HAD THAT PROBLEM FUNDING THE QUEEN MARY IN LONG BEACH CA, FOR SO MANY YRS, THE MAINTAINANCE COSTS ARE JUST INCREDIBLE. IT WAS TAKING ON WATER AND COULD HAVE SUNK, BUT IT HAS BEEN FIXED NOW. THERE IS A RUSSIAN SUB NEXT TO IT, SCORPION CLASS, I WENT THRU IT, IT IS NOT NEARLY AS KEPT UP AS THIS ONE IS THOUGH.
Not to take away from submariners incredible sacrifice, but from 42-43 in the 8th Air Force, it was statistically impossible for a crew to complete the 25 mission tour. Basically a death sentence. Although sub crews were in the same boat from enlistment because the only way they would stop sailing was to win the war. Interesting that there were other branches on both sides which were just as hazardous to your health but I guess none lasted the whole war like U boats...
3/4 DE LO SUBMARINOS NO VOLVIERON......HEROES ALEMANES QUE COMBATIERON,SUFRIERON Y MURIERON POR ALEMANIA //UN SALUDO POSTUMO PARA TODOS ELLOS// SOBRE EL ESFUERZO TECNOLOGICO DE ALEMANIA ......ADMIRABLE... ADELANTADOS A SUS ENEMIGOS EN AÑOS
Been there in 1984 when stationed with a Dutch tank battalion. This visit, along with the ones to the former Bergen Belsen camp and the border with East Germany truly made for an imperishable memory.
Unbelievable to think of all the resources used to make over 1500 on these submarines. Not to mention back in that time, such a complicated network of stuff with a crew that operated it all some how. Amazing
One the best walk through tours I've seen aboard this boat. Your camera skills (including the slow pans) are outstanding. Great commentary also. Thanks for sharing this amazing tour with the rest of the world.
There were a couple of items worth reporting to moviemistakes.com. Especially visible crew in the reflection :D But I guess I should visit the Marinemuseum at some stage myself :)
Iv read personal accounts of German, British and US submariners - they were all on the top of their game and dedicated to their country. That being said, some had better accomodations than others and here the German u-boats did not come out on top for sure.
I saw the movie when it came out and then a couple of days ago it was shown on TCM and I recorded it to watch it again. A great movie. I liked the original release with the subtitles the best. .
I walked trough that submarine in 2014 visiting my brother's daughter and their children. And also the marine museum nearby. And walked up the Marine museum 12 story observation tower. Impressive models of WWII warships in that Underground Museum.
@@skippa7324 you know the US got most of their advanced radar technology from the brits as they were on the brink of defeat and their best option was to give all of their research to the americans for any help they could get.
The engineering of the submarine is magnificent. To come up with such a machine is one thing ? To produce a functional working submarine is impressive.
Indeed it is impressive. Just take a minute to appreciate how we are all looking at this as a relic from a bygone era. Then recognise how this machine would have seemed like incredibly advanced alien technology to people from the age of sail. Time is such a strange thing.
@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 really well said my friend ! i can only imagine the awe if you show this to sailors just a 100 years before it was made. Time truly is fascinating
What I find incredible is that these were designed, built quickly and actually worked. It looks so complicated. I can't imagine how long it would take now to rebuild any part of it.
Thank you for this amazing video. I was there in 2017 for the second time - at the first time, I was at school and not very interested in submarine technology or warfare / WW2. However that changed during the years, and after watching movies like "Das Boot" (german original title) or Hunt for Red October, I went there with a quite different view about submarine warfare in WW2 or the cold war. Anyway, I was impressed about the technology of the WW2 era. I hope the U 995 will remain as a museum for a long time in the future - especially as a reminder that there was a time when a long period of peace was not normal but rather unusual in Europe. Sometimes it seems to me that today's youth does not appreciate the fact that they live in peace - because they do not know, what war is / was like (especially the WW2 time with its combination of war and political suppression). Lets hope they do not have to find out "the hard way"... Greetings from Germany.
A well written comment with a chilling final sentence. The worry is those who seek to rewrite history to portray Nazi Germany as The Victim with enemies on every side. Well, you only develop enemies on every side if you go about invading countries and treating the people of those Occupied Countries as slaves or Sub Humans.
This is why we really need to start taking seriously the damage that control freaks cause to us as a race. Only then will we start looking into ways to identify them and put some form of control measures in place limiting their ability to get into positions of power. We put control measures on sex offenders and they don't even start wars. The damage they do to our society is nothing really compared to that which the control freaks cause.
@cobra nation official No war isn't really good for the economy as a whole at all, that's just bullshit the rich elite want you to believe so you little men won't object too much to them using your tax dollars to supply a military with goods supplied by their companies when they go to war. Think about it, how can war benefit the human race when it destroys billions worth of buildings and other infrastructure and property? All that money spent on the military and all the cost of replacing destroyed property would benefit the entire world if it could be put to better use rather than throwing it down the drain so our beloved overlords can play game of fucking thrones and add even more billions to the stack of billions they already have that they could never even spend in ten lifetimes anyway. And don't even get me started on the loss of life and the cost of life changing injuries it imposes on many many people, way too many. I mean you can't even put a price on a very young child having to live its life without its daddy or mommy. War is not good for anything period, it is fucking disgusting, costly, and only a fucking vile control freak cunt would ever think it was.
I KNOW ITS THE YEAR 2020, AND THE LEFT WANTS A SOCIALIST PRESIDENT, AFTER THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS DIED BEATING THE LEADER OF THE NATIONIST SOCIALIST PARTY?
Must have been a terrifying job, being a submariner during world war 2. I don't care what side they were on. Each and everyone were the bravest of the brave, and should always be remembered for the sacrifices they made 👍
Even if the paint might be different from original (at least from what you gather from seeing Das Boot) it's amazing how the details in the movie/TV-series are so alike. The only thing "missing" is the Tiefenmesser that you see in the dramatisation. Wow. Wolfgang Pedersen and his crew really did a masterpiece.
Wolfgang Petersen, did an outstanding job, which has not been replicated since. Even crews who served during WWII looked at his movie/series and agreed, that his portrayal is accurate. Interesting fact : When the movie was released in Germany it was seen to celebrate war, but the rest of the world viewed his work as anti-war.
Been in U995 twice. Still baffles me how the crew could live and fight on a day to day basis. 30 minutes inside...while drydocked on land, is enough for me. Those onboard were a different breed of men indeed, especially knowing the death rate of their fellow sailors. Great tour!
40.000 went to sea, 30,000 never returned.... Hell of a way to die. Same can be said for hundreds or thousands of merchant marines... who were shown no mercy... war is war... War is hell.
There are new figures that have only been determined through evaluation in recent years. It is a little less, but still enough catastrophic. From approximately 39.000 German submarine drivers, a little more then 27.000 died on sea. If you would drive in a German submarine in World War II or would flown in an Allied bomber, the chance of surviving the war was less than 40 percent. The prognosis was that you would be die at the 5th mission at the latest. Both arms-systems had the largest losses in World War II.
Whether you're Japanese, American, British, German, Soviet, or other, you must to have the largest and most dense balls to stick yourself in small cramped pressure vessel in the middle of the ocean for months. You're not only fighting a war with destroyers and other subs but with the ocean itself. God bless all men who are forever patrolling the worlds oceans.
The submariners had great respect for eachother and the profession they were in, so there are examples of British and German submarines coming accross eachother, but instead of attacking they turned around - life was already dangerous enough as a submariner.
I live in Manitowoc, Wi. 28 WW 2 Subs were built here. The USS Cobia (not built in Manitowoc) sits at the Maritime Museum less then 4 miles from my home. I have driven past this sub thousands of times with absolutely no interest in it. I worked for the Manitowoc Co. making cranes and later making ice machines. Everything is still there. The subs were launched laterally because the river is so narrow. 4 Manitowoc submarines were lost in WW2. The buildings that once produced subs now produce turbine towers for windmills, and life goes on. It is just strange to me that I have been fascinated by U Boats my whole life. I walk my dog on the the beach of Lake MI. almost everyday-it sure must of been freaky when they did shake down cruises out there. Thanks, Offbeatbob
My Father enlisted in the US Navy in 1933 and was assigned to the lighter than air (blimp) ZP-12 squadron which at the time, was the only deridgable powerful enough to patrol the Atlantic searching for these U-Boats that were taking out our merchant marine ships heading to England. At the time, the US Navy airfield was known as Mariam airfield ( I think) its the same airfield where the Hindenberg met its fate in 1936, and yes, Dad witnessed the Hindenbergs accident. At the time,Dad was on leave,at home, which was 18mi from the airfield. Dad saw the Hindenberg in flight and followed it on his Indian scout motorcycle he salvaged from the local dump and used for his day to day transportation. Interesting fact: The German U-Boats were much faster when surfaced, than the American submarine, but when submerged, The U-Boats were slower than their American counterpart. Thank you for the narration and tour!🇺🇸🇩🇪✌️🤠
Thanks for sharing your father's story 😊 About the U-boats being faster on the surface, which ones did you have in mind? I thought they were generally slower 😊
Wow, such a fabulous insight regarding a Uboat. Such cramped conditions, loads of pipes, dials, boxes and handles everywhere. Thank you so much for sharing as this has to be a historic record of a Sub like this.
I was aboard the U-995 in late summer 2009, while visiting family relatives that live in Kiel and Lübeck. Extremely fascinating. I also visited the Submariner’s Memorial at Laboe, which is the WWII and I Memorial to thefallen comradescomrades, the WWII
Very complicated War ship. Truly Amazing Technology of it's time. Courageous sailors. I get cloustophobic just looking at the cramped conditions . Great engineers to figure out the endless plumming involved , guages everywhere. And , no emergency escape hatches , or mini sub in case of a malfunction.
Very clear and well presented. Remarkable engineering - but sad how many died in these U boats and on the merchant vessels they destroyed. Rest in peace.
Except seems the narrator failed to say much or have extensive knowledge of many parts, controls, and functions evidenced by his silence much of the time. Never showed and explained how the torpedoes were loaded into the tubes.
@@x.y.8581 Then maybe you can do a voice over (with his permission, of course) and explain it all better? Personally, I think he did a great job on this walkthrough of a German U-Boat.
@@BecksHobbyProductions Are there any photos of what it looked like when it was salvaged? That looks like an almost perfect restoration, causing me to wonder what the condition was when it was 1st found.
@@evanscreekbrahman7511 I dont think it was as such "salvaged". It was handed over the the Norwegian after the war and they used it for some time after it was sold back to Germany to become a museum. From Uboat.net: " Post war information (see more post-war boats): Taken over by Norway. Became the Norwegian submarine Kaura on 1 Dec, 1952. Stricken in 1965. Returned to Germany where she became a museum ship in Oct 1971." I think someone in the comments also mentioned that a team restored it to as close as possible to WWII configuration when it became a museum.
Fascinating video, thanks for uploading it. I myself am a serving Submariner and the differences between then and now are stark, although some things haven't changed. There's still valves and gauges everywhere you look. I can't imagine a bilge pump in the control room! I am very thankful that I've only known nuclear submarines. Those blokes serving on the U995 must have been tough as nails.
Learned about the U boats for many years and this is amazing. Could never imagine the courage demanded from these men. The constant threat of catastrophe. Men of Steel as are all submariners. Incredible.
The BBC on the electric engines means "Brown Boveri & Company", a Swiss company that had a subsidiary in Germany in the town of Mannheim. By 1937 15,000 people worked there. Another Mannheim company, MWM (Motorenwerke Mannheim) built U-Boat diesel engines, so both electric and diesel engines for the U-Boats were made in Mannheim, which was one reason why Mannheim became a prime target of the allied bombings. Mannheim was the German city with most air raids of all German towns during WW II. By the end of the war, only about 100,000 of the original 300,000 inhabitants still lived there.
The size of the torpedoes always impresses me. Beautiful tour of a beautiful and fascinating machine. Brings back memories of stalking convoys in Silent Hunter.
Outstanding Video...Best Walk-Thru Tour I've seen on an "Underwater" Boat. With an accurate intel narrative, and the exterior photography perspectives reveal how menacing these North Atlantic Wolves really were. In addition, the condition of this ship is marvel-worthy.
I have watched the movie Das Boot many times and having that walkthrough puts it into perspective a lot more. Thanks, very entertaining , the sailors who went to war in these subs were brave men!
Don't watch the movie which was an afterthought due to the success of Das Boot German 1981 TV series with subtitles. You get 16 eps each 45mins long, rather than the truncated 2hr 30m film. Make sure it's the original series & not Sky derivative.
i toured an american ww2 sub. and it sure was a cramped situation. Im glad i went army..and alotta respect to those fella's who did this duty...incredible. thanks for the German tour!!
I like the sound effects as you tour. Nice touch. 13:00 I was able to climb the ladder to a windowed area on the USS Lionfish. My guess is they blocked off these areas to prevent accidental falls. There was an inaccessible floor below that one could see through window panes.
I am one of those who was introduced to the German U-boat story through the film in the early 1980s. Seeing this walk through tour I see the film producers and set dressers had their details spot-on for "Das Boot"
@@BecksHobbyProductions I had read the original film was to be a series but it seems to never been realized unless there was a series forGerman television. Please clarify if you can.
The series was created back then. The movies (Theatrical/Directors cut) were condensed versions of the same footage :) You need to search for the Das Boot uncut version. Its about 5 hours long running time :) I highly recommend it.
A fantastic walkthrough thank you, what an amazing feat of engineering this sub was, every part this had to be made and assembled and in the 1940's, i'm so impressed with the quality of workmanship.
Thank you for the kind comment. Submarines in general do seem so complicated, but each person assigned to each area knew exactly what they were working with, but still pretty amazing :)
I am currently reading The War Beneath the sea by Peter Padfield, it provides an excellent insight into the submarines, equipment and tactics utilised by all combatant nations of WW2. Obviously the bulk of the subject focuses on the U Boat war. This video has really helped bring the story to life, it’s a lot easier now to visualise what life must have been like inside a U Boat but hard to imagine how the crews managed to live in such a cramped space for months on end in highly stressful conditions. These were young men who from the end of 1943 knew they might not ever return, the “Happy Time” was long over and Allied anti submarine technology meant attacking convoys in boats like this type 7 was virtually suicidal. Thanks for the video, great job!
My granduncle was Lt.Ing (Lieutenant Engineer), i.e. third in command, on one of these. His submarine was sunk somewhere in the English Channel. His name is inscribed on the Submariner Memorial, not far from the submarine in this video. He knew that he was being sent on a suicide mission and told my grandfather "If I should return, I'll become an Admiral", knowing how unlikely his survival would be. He mainly became a submariner, because the pay was among the highest in the Wehrmacht.
@@louisedwards4023 That's because you think it's all black and white, good and evil, when the guy was 21 years old when he died and didn't even start the war. I think he would have prefered not to go to war given the CHOICE.
@@generalripper7528 well I did say sorry. But my motherinlaws. Brother went down with the ship after a U boat. Sank her in the Atlantic. But on the other hand maby he sank a sub or two. I guess we've all got a part of life we wish we could change! Thanks for getting me strate😞
My dad was 3rd watch officer on U-969 in the Med. We toured this VIIC when we were in Germany in 1975. 20 years later I had the chance to visit San Fransisco and tour USS Pampanito. Like a cruise ship compared to a row boat.
I hope you had the opportunity to hear what he had experienced and seen. I have also been on the USS Pampanito a couple of times. It really is a world of difference in crew comfort.
@@BecksHobbyProductions I did. I was in Phoenix in 97-98 doing the last semester for my BSC EET. Had to take a history course and do a report. I chose to compare US fleet actions and subs to the German ones. Flew home over Christmas and "interviewed" my dad. All sorts of things, from his time in Flensburg, to his cadet cruise, first operational sub, being sent to Danzig to help bring the second one into commission, the trip to the Med, the bases there, and a lot more. Did really well on the report, but lost it in the move back to Canada. Same with the tapes. Never did it again, and dad passed in 2005. One thing he did was get me a copy of Ten Years and 20 days, the autobiography of Donitz. Reading that, I can understand why the crews went out time after time, even towards the end, knowing that 3 out of 4 boats never came back. The U-boat memorial in Laboe is visited daily by hundreds of people, and even has tributes from enemies.
@@sabrekai8706 besides the all the positive comments on my content, which I really am thankful for, its stories like this which gets to me. Stories like yours, brings the video to life and makes it real. Thanks for sharing your story!
Noticed the recording of 'Tipperary" a homage to 'Das Boot' I was visualising many scenes from that series watching this. 30,248 merchant seamen lost their lives during WW2, so almost parity with the unfortunates of the U-Boot service
Looks like the German sub in Chacigo. I compared that one with a 70's Russian sub in Los Angeles and found the German construction far superior and appeared much more comfortable. Great sound effects!
The one in Chicago is a type IX which is longer at has better range 🙂 A way to tell them apart is to look for the saddle tanks - the type VII has them , the type IX does not. The type IXs range allowed them to patrol of the coast of the US and were instrumental during operation Drumbeat. The sub in Chicago is the U505 and is the only surviving type IX on display in one piece.
The fact that it is a Type VIIC/41 variant which was pretty rare back then since it's the last Type VII upgrade and variant that saw duty in small production batches and the sole WW2 Type VII (and Type VIIC/41 I repeat) that survived is truly impressive. A thicker pressure hull rated for 250m instead of the baseline 200m, that's quite the beast!
Beautiful Boat! I cannot imagine what it is like to be a submariner. As close to Hell as one can get! I was a gunship Flight Lieutenant. Also, close to Hell. An unforgiving and dangerous environment. I salute those sailors! Thank you Becks for a wonderful walk-thru!
Well, Flight Lieutenant, the first time you dive in a sub is ....interessting^^ You stare onto the depth gauge 10meters , 20, 30 "Oh not to bad" 40, 50, 60 "ok thats it, if something goes wrong now, you are doomed. But its an awesome experience, you have to "feel" it
Thank you for the video. I grew up in Chicago in the 1950s. The Museum of Science and Industry had the German U-505, which was captured in WWII. Amazing
When it was returned to germany from Norway, it was in a bad shape. The bow section was completly rebuild, also the conning tower is just a mock up of how it looked in WW2. This however is the last remaining VII C submarine in the world today.
It looks as though all it needs is to be put in the water, crewed, and an immediate launch could be carried out, just WOW!! Great video, thanks for taking us with you...
What a marvelous piece of history..it's amazing to see all the components on a submarine..imagine being on this thing during war..these guys were very brave..I wouldn't last a day on there..
Very brave and very dead. They were considered pirates by ordinary seamen who worked aboard ships as their regular jobs. The U-boat captains were machine-gunning survivors in lifeboats when my father was one of their (missed) targets. They were trying to eliminate personnel as well as ships. No sailor kills men who are in the sea. The laws of the sea are unwritten but older than land laws. This is the last U-boat of this type? Good. My father came home to work a job and raise a family, and the men who were trying to kill him are still at the bottom of the Atlantic. He was wounded by the way, and the Germs taken prisoner by his ship went to Canada to eat and sleep and wait for the war to end.
Such a cold ending for a warm life - Despite it being a killing machine you have to have some respect for those that served in them - Thanks for letting us take a look.
My grandfather worked on the submarine. After second worldwar, germany left kaura u995 in Norway. U995 was a permanent submarine for the navy in norway for many years.
Fantastic tour thank you. Loved the sound effects, some of which came from SH3. Having played the game a lot, it was like walking through a familiar home. It is difficult to imagine the living conditions and fear in the brave men who served and died in these steel coffins. Don't care that they were nazis, most of them were just young men with a sense of duty to their country who died horrible deaths.
The sheer amount of engineering and technology that was handcrafted is staggering. One would think it would take years and years to build a single craft.
The only missing thing is films or photos of the many Allies ships and lives these killings machines did. As the son of a Canadian sailman and decorated hero, I cannot see this without mixed feelings. Impressive engineering but wrongly used for war and terror. Let's not forget that.
Excellent video, reading "Das Boot" at this time and this helped me get a idea how confined space was onboard.. Incredible engineering ,brave men of all nationalities who operated in these madly confined Subs...I salute Sir ;you if you have done any real time in one..
At 15:33 the clock on the right hand bulkhead, i have one of these, together with the original key. My friends late father, was in the Royal Navy and liberated it at the end of war. It still keeps perfect time.
As a German, I have such mixed feelings when I see these things: For once, that immense ingenuity and effort - just impressive. On the other hand, I‘m so damn glad they got stopped in their tracks! If only humanity could unleash these astonishing feats for SOMETHING POSITIVE, instead of for suffering, death and cruel and sadistic injustice!
This was really fascinating; thank you 🙏 for loading it. I’ve never seen the inside of a U-boat before. Very, very cool 😎 and I loved the sound effects!
JbeckJ Absolutely. Plus, I don’t think I’ll ever get to Germany for my “dream tour” so thank goodness 😅 for people like you who also have a passion for history AND TH-cam!
Fun Fact: 9th December 1945, U995 was surrendered to British forces. In 1948 U995, along with two other German U-boats (Kya ex-U-926, Kinn ex-U-1202) transferred to Norwegian control as war reparation, and entered service in 1952 and became know as the Norwegian K-class submarine. After it went out of service in 1965, it was offered to West-Germany for the price of one Deutsche Mark. They declined the offer. It was in the end saved by the German Navy League.
Thanks for posting this, very interesting. I can’t help but think of the courage it would have taken to go out in one of these especially towards the end of the war when the Allies really got their act together when hunting them.
Germany was the aggressor. Calling German WW2 soldires courageous implies they're somehow need to be admired for their actions. This is ridiculous. It's like calling a mugger courageous for attacking people on the street.
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*Very well done, thank you.*
The U-505 in Chicago is another great WWII submarine specimen. Incidentally, A wonderful WWI submarine book is “Fips: Legendary U Boat Commander...” Here’s a student film about this great story: th-cam.com/video/SZvL_0BTSis/w-d-xo.html.
@@jimhoffmann some Type of Boots they went thru USA was 1 section larger built, for more diesel and food.
In 1945 a danish salvage firm called Switcher raised a type 21 elektoboot in prestige condition and hauled it into a port name Marstal. The danish Navy was not interested in taken into service , and why they diclined the offer stands a little in the dark. Anyhow , sometime in 1946 the almost New elektoboot was scrapped - would have been a nice museumpiece like the Wilhelm Baur lying in wilhelshafen in germany
It never ceases to amaze me how something so incredibly complex was mass produced in such a relatively short period of time, and this is just one type of one service in one country.
The Germans did that...... too bad they couldn't stick to Beir und Wurst.
@@archiecoolsdown5854 Too bad WWII Germany wasn't bright enough to ignore the wonderfully outright tyrannic ideas of criminal dictatorship by such puny, hate filled, psychotic ignoramuses such as Hitler, Goering, Himmler and Goebbels (just to get started).
Millions of slave labour and wealth robbed from all over Europe. There's your answer.
Accumulation of human knowledge for centuries ;)
@@MrMessiah44 Hi Why do you say that Are you looking for slave Labour?
I find the Atlantic War _endlessly_ fascinating.
The psychological element really intrigues me. How patient the hunt was. Weeks or months out on the open ocean. Boredom and tedium. Long treks, massive storms. Listening for ships, stalking them, plotting torpedo solutions, taking the shot. The hunter then became the hunted. Being hundreds of feet under the surface, hearing the Asdic pings and propellers above, remaining silent, weathering incessant depth charges. Seldom in war is it such a pure pitting of mind, endurance and strategy to deadly consequence as the U-boat necessitated.
Thanks for the video, this is a treasure to be able to see. One day I hope to visit 995 myself. I’m very glad some U-boats still exist, as they’re a testament to an incredibly fascinating period of history. RIP to all those lost in the Atlantic….on both sides. Regardless of ideology, some truly courageous men.
Agree. Only too bad that after enigma cracking it was all in vein for the unknowing gernans
There is another submarine in the Harbour of the german city of Bremerhaven. Just so U know.
soldiers are generally bad people. An ideology is no object
@@hanskloss9482 l disagree, they are gonna be brainwashed by the system and made bad. But not all of them . For lots of them, usually those who are underprivileged, enlisting into the military is the only chance to get a decent education. But they are not aware that they usually sooner or later will be used as Canon food and don't realize what they themselves are getting into, so the privileged can hit themselves on the shoulder after having provoked another unnecessary war with a country which is not in line with the US in order to keep the economy rolling. Instead of always making war with other parts of the world and bomb them back into the stone age, why isn't the US not really setting a real example and help these countries to get back on their feet bringing up their economy, too and then start trading with these countries, similar to the Marshall plan with the germans. I think that would help both sides and those countries would stop hating the US and terrorism against them would die down, because they would see how good the US really can be. Just saying.
And all that performed by kids, not by the arses of politicians.
can’t help but imagine the sight of water rushing in and the fact that all these pipes and knobs were the last thing many men saw
Obviously not a popular comment with 3 likes after 6 months, maybe the truth is too stark for many others here.
I am guessing the military teaches men on how to die. So, it may not be as scary. When the water is coming in, the lights probably wouldn't be on. They would have seen nothing.
I bet many shot themselves,was the crew allowed a pistol each tho? I'd say not due to the psycolgical pressure living on one of those things,only the captain maybe had a pistol? I'd want a pistol in my pocket if I faced that demise
Considering the waterpressure, a direct hit by a mine or bomb would lead to sudden death wihout warning. A wounded Boot on the other hand would be as terrible as you see in the Movies….
I can't even think of it...!!!
Having served in the British Royal Navy submarines for 20yrs totally understand and appreciate the German perspective of u boats and salute ANY submariner around the world 👍great video thank you
Always great to get feedback from someone who actually served in a submarine. Thanks for your comment and watching 🙂
My mother brought me here when I was 16.
She was born and raised in Kiel during the war.
Even at 16 I was six feet tall and the guide made fun of me saying I could never be a submariner.
I am glad they upgraded the lighting in the sub as it was much darker back in 1980.
For me it was nice to be able to touch history.
The near by memorial really touched me emotionally. Seeing all those that were lost at sea was awe inspiring to me.
I was so glad that my mom shared this with me.
I can confirm that. Whoever comes to Laboe should not only visit U-995 together with the Naval Memorial but should also take a detour to the U-Boat Memorial at Möltenort to pay his respects to the sailors.
Thanks for the walk through. I'm fascinated by the German U-Boats and watching Das Boot every now and then again. I can't get over the amount of complex machinery on board. A latch or gauge in every direction. Just incredible how these things were built and the men that served aboard. Sad truth that only 25% came back home.
I'm glad you enjoyed it 😊
I am playing a ubaot simulator game onnmy oculus vr headset. Its funny how accurate they made the virtual one. Im familier with the layout and the controls on the real boat based on the game!
Don't you know that the submarine that appears in the video is a replica and not a real one?
Fun Fact: Im a German Solider since 2012 . i was in This Boat in 2006 or 2007 with My Parents and this was the Day i told My Father i want to go to the German Marine after the School. And now im a Oberbootsmann (Staff Sgt) on a german Bundeswehr Marine U Boot... Best descision in My Life onl because the visit in this boat
That's a very cool story. Small decisions lead to big things. :)
nazis!!! shoot themn all
@@steve75112 Your excellent use of the English language, and clear grasp of the nuances of grammar are demonstrative of your intellect. Bravo!
I hope that the newer boat's have better amenities
Thanks for your service... I'm glad we are now allies.
Well, my turn at war came in the opposite spectrum, dropping bombs from a B-52 D at 40,000 ft. However we were just as cramped for space as that submarine, but there were only 5 of us in the fuselage. I was really surprised to see so much wood used in the submarine. The amount the wheels and valve handles is stupefying. How they ever knew which was the right one use in an emergency boggles the mind. You are to be commended for making such an informative and visually pleasing video. Wunderbar.
Saved metal by using wood. I was struck by the same thing when I toured the U-Boat in the Chicago Museum many years ago, That and the mind boggling tight spaces. I literally could never imagine being in that tiny metal box under attack. Where that got these men to go down the first time is difficult enough but how in God's name they got them to go down again and again and again until they died.
I've been through the U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry, in Chicago. I also took a tour through the American submarine at the naval museum in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The refurbishment of this Submarine is top notch. Great Job to whoever did it.
Iv been told it was refurbished with care, maybe even by people who helped build them originally.
When I was a small boy, my father took me to see the U505 being dragged across the roadway to where it sits at the museum. I was too little to see so I got to sit on his shoulders to watch. As the many years that have gone by since then, it is one thing I remember and smile.
Even though they are primitive compared to today, I think WWII submarines are so cool! I also have a lot of respect for how brave the crews had to be, regardless of what side they were on.
Agree. They represent a space where machine really meets man. A very hands on experience.
Thank you for this very informative and interesting upload! My parents used to know a man who served on a U-Boat during World War Two. He was one of the nicest people ever who spoke openly about his experiences during his service. May he rest in peace.
Thanks for the good feedback :) I whish to have met a man who served on a Uboat.
@@BecksHobbyProductions My pleasure, my friend. I also wished I got to speak to him.
Wonderful video...really well done.
One can't help but try to imagine these ships in wartime/battle conditions. Can you imagine being in a damaged ship, fighting to save it, whilst STILL managing to continue to fight?
NOTHING but respect for these men, regardless of which side they fought for.
I’ve been aboard quite a few museum ships in the US including subs, battleships etc. Funds for maintenance are always hard to come by, so sadly many of them are in poor shape. It is great to see that this boat is in a high state of preservation. Thanks for the video.
THEY HAVE HAD THAT PROBLEM FUNDING THE QUEEN MARY IN LONG BEACH CA, FOR SO MANY YRS, THE MAINTAINANCE COSTS ARE JUST INCREDIBLE. IT WAS TAKING ON WATER AND COULD HAVE SUNK, BUT IT HAS BEEN FIXED NOW. THERE IS A RUSSIAN SUB NEXT TO IT, SCORPION CLASS, I WENT THRU IT, IT IS NOT NEARLY
AS KEPT UP AS THIS ONE IS THOUGH.
@@TOBYH Your caps lock is on.
@@Bassalicious Probably shouting upwards from within that rust bucket of a scorpion after falling through the deck.
A mortality rate of 75%- 3 out of 4 submariners didn't return home. Chilling statistic. Ultimate respect to you all departed brave warriors.
Not to take away from submariners incredible sacrifice, but from 42-43 in the 8th Air Force, it was statistically impossible for a crew to complete the 25 mission tour. Basically a death sentence. Although sub crews were in the same boat from enlistment because the only way they would stop sailing was to win the war. Interesting that there were other branches on both sides which were just as hazardous to your health but I guess none lasted the whole war like U boats...
Admiral Donitz lost both his sons in the submarine service
The things men build to kill each other cheer up Italy switched sides in ww2 have some ziti wine why get killed
3/4 DE LO SUBMARINOS NO VOLVIERON......HEROES ALEMANES QUE COMBATIERON,SUFRIERON Y MURIERON POR ALEMANIA //UN SALUDO POSTUMO PARA TODOS ELLOS// SOBRE EL ESFUERZO TECNOLOGICO DE ALEMANIA ......ADMIRABLE... ADELANTADOS A SUS ENEMIGOS EN AÑOS
@I'm AnesonOD You still did what you were told if you were an able bodied German back then..
Been there in 1984 when stationed with a Dutch tank battalion.
This visit, along with the ones to the former Bergen Belsen camp and the border with East Germany truly made for an imperishable memory.
I can imagine. I wish I could have seen the wall in Berlin
Unbelievable to think of all the resources used to make over 1500 on these submarines. Not to mention back in that time, such a complicated network of stuff with a crew that operated it all some how. Amazing
Not to mention how complicated the spacecraft and engines were for the Apollo program. Quite amazing what's possible with the right motivation.
One the best walk through tours I've seen aboard this boat. Your camera skills (including the slow pans) are outstanding. Great commentary also. Thanks for sharing this amazing tour with the rest of the world.
Agreed! This is a great piece of history. DVD???
There were a couple of items worth reporting to moviemistakes.com. Especially visible crew in the reflection :D
But I guess I should visit the Marinemuseum at some stage myself :)
Agree! I also would like to know what each of those meters and knobs do...
Can't be serious.
The Skill..Training and courage of the German Sailors won't be forgotten.
Iv read personal accounts of German, British and US submariners - they were all on the top of their game and dedicated to their country. That being said, some had better accomodations than others and here the German u-boats did not come out on top for sure.
cowards nazis ! that who they were.
In the American Navy , we describe ourselves as Submarineers. Ergo, submariners are considered substandard submarine sailors.
The men who served on submarines were a special breed, i take my hat off to them. God, war is Hell.
Das boot is my favourite war film, nothing but respect for all submariners.
@@BecksHobbyProductions th-cam.com/video/tclAbWvBt70/w-d-xo.html is my favourite. First of three. Enjoy.
you ended up loving every man in the crew, even if they were the enemy!
What a Great movie....what truely brave men who served on these subs, ...unbelievable
I saw the movie when it came out and then a couple of days ago it was shown on TCM and I recorded it to watch it again. A great movie. I liked the original release with the subtitles the best. .
@@BecksHobbyProductions No way I'm going to pay what Amazon is asking for this video. Dream on.
I walked trough that submarine in 2014 visiting my brother's daughter and their children. And also the marine museum nearby. And walked up the Marine museum 12 story observation tower. Impressive models of WWII warships in that Underground Museum.
I still get shivers over my spine the amount of technology they already had during that time
Sometimes technology may surprised you. Here's another one, did you know the first electric car was invented in the 19th century?
@@olbradley yes i recently heard that to!!!
yup and we kicked there ass nevertheless
mrearlygold You must be american
@@skippa7324 you know the US got most of their advanced radar technology from the brits as they were on the brink of defeat and their best option was to give all of their research to the americans for any help they could get.
The engineering of the submarine is magnificent. To come up with such a machine is one thing ? To produce a functional working submarine is impressive.
Indeed it is impressive. Just take a minute to appreciate how we are all looking at this as a relic from a bygone era. Then recognise how this machine would have seemed like incredibly advanced alien technology to people from the age of sail. Time is such a strange thing.
@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 really well said my friend ! i can only imagine the awe if you show this to sailors just a 100 years before it was made. Time truly is fascinating
What I find incredible is that these were designed, built quickly and actually worked. It looks so complicated. I can't imagine how long it would take now to rebuild any part of it.
Thank you for this amazing video. I was there in 2017 for the second time - at the first time, I was at school and not very interested in submarine technology or warfare / WW2. However that changed during the years, and after watching movies like "Das Boot" (german original title) or Hunt for Red October, I went there with a quite different view about submarine warfare in WW2 or the cold war. Anyway, I was impressed about the technology of the WW2 era. I hope the U 995 will remain as a museum for a long time in the future - especially as a reminder that there was a time when a long period of peace was not normal but rather unusual in Europe. Sometimes it seems to me that today's youth does not appreciate the fact that they live in peace - because they do not know, what war is / was like (especially the WW2 time with its combination of war and political suppression). Lets hope they do not have to find out "the hard way"... Greetings from Germany.
Let me recommend you a Russian movie "72 meters". It is relatively new (~15 years), but quite gripping and hilarious. You won't regret, I think.
A well written comment with a chilling final sentence. The worry is those who seek to rewrite history to portray Nazi Germany as The Victim with enemies on every side. Well, you only develop enemies on every side if you go about invading countries and treating the people of those Occupied Countries as slaves or Sub Humans.
One really has to marvel at the incredible effort that men will go through to kill each other.
WHAT A PERCEPTIVE OBSERVATION AND WHOLEY RIGHT
This is why we really need to start taking seriously the damage that control freaks cause to us as a race. Only then will we start looking into ways to identify them and put some form of control measures in place limiting their ability to get into positions of power. We put control measures on sex offenders and they don't even start wars. The damage they do to our society is nothing really compared to that which the control freaks cause.
@cobra nation official No war isn't really good for the economy as a whole at all, that's just bullshit the rich elite want you to believe so you little men won't object too much to them using your tax dollars to supply a military with goods supplied by their companies when they go to war. Think about it, how can war benefit the human race when it destroys billions worth of buildings and other infrastructure and property? All that money spent on the military and all the cost of replacing destroyed property would benefit the entire world if it could be put to better use rather than throwing it down the drain so our beloved overlords can play game of fucking thrones and add even more billions to the stack of billions they already have that they could never even spend in ten lifetimes anyway. And don't even get me started on the loss of life and the cost of life changing injuries it imposes on many many people, way too many. I mean you can't even put a price on a very young child having to live its life without its daddy or mommy. War is not good for anything period, it is fucking disgusting, costly, and only a fucking vile control freak cunt would ever think it was.
@cobra nation official War equals bankers profit. War is not good for the economy or society as a whole.
I KNOW ITS THE YEAR 2020, AND THE LEFT WANTS A SOCIALIST PRESIDENT, AFTER THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS DIED BEATING THE LEADER OF THE NATIONIST SOCIALIST PARTY?
I was lucky enough to see this awesome machine in person. Crazy how advanced they were 80 years ago!
Must have been a terrifying job, being a submariner during world war 2. I don't care what side they were on. Each and everyone were the bravest of the brave, and should always be remembered for the sacrifices they made 👍
Even if the paint might be different from original (at least from what you gather from seeing Das Boot) it's amazing how the details in the movie/TV-series are so alike. The only thing "missing" is the Tiefenmesser that you see in the dramatisation. Wow. Wolfgang Pedersen and his crew really did a masterpiece.
Wolfgang Petersen, did an outstanding job, which has not been replicated since. Even crews who served during WWII looked at his movie/series and agreed, that his portrayal is accurate.
Interesting fact :
When the movie was released in Germany it was seen to celebrate war, but the rest of the world viewed his work as anti-war.
Been in U995 twice. Still baffles me how the crew could live and fight on a day to day basis. 30 minutes inside...while drydocked on land, is enough for me. Those onboard were a different breed of men indeed, especially knowing the death rate of their fellow sailors. Great tour!
Agree, I could not have done it either...
40.000 went to sea, 30,000 never returned.... Hell of a way to die. Same can be said for hundreds or thousands of merchant marines... who were shown no mercy... war is war... War is hell.
@1bikesale They rule those who accept the yoke.
@@KutWrite was there an option not to serve?
@@nealbeard1 I believe at the beginning, sub service was all volunteer. I'm not sure it stayed that way.
There are new figures that have only been determined through evaluation in recent years. It is a little less, but still enough catastrophic. From approximately 39.000 German submarine drivers, a little more then 27.000 died on sea. If you would drive in a German submarine in World War II or would flown in an Allied bomber, the chance of surviving the war was less than 40 percent. The prognosis was that you would be die at the 5th mission at the latest. Both arms-systems had the largest losses in World War II.
"war is hell"-- you right. Thats why we should never forget who starts that war.
Whether you're Japanese, American, British, German, Soviet, or other, you must to have the largest and most dense balls to stick yourself in small cramped pressure vessel in the middle of the ocean for months. You're not only fighting a war with destroyers and other subs but with the ocean itself. God bless all men who are forever patrolling the worlds oceans.
The submariners had great respect for eachother and the profession they were in, so there are examples of British and German submarines coming accross eachother, but instead of attacking they turned around - life was already dangerous enough as a submariner.
I live in Manitowoc, Wi. 28 WW 2 Subs were built here. The USS Cobia (not built in Manitowoc) sits at the Maritime Museum less then 4 miles from my home. I have driven past this sub thousands of times with absolutely no interest in it. I worked for the Manitowoc Co. making cranes and later making ice machines. Everything is still there. The subs were launched laterally because the river is so narrow. 4 Manitowoc submarines were lost in WW2. The buildings that once produced subs now produce turbine towers for windmills, and life goes on. It is just strange to me that I have been fascinated by U Boats my whole life. I walk my dog on the the beach of Lake MI. almost everyday-it sure must of been freaky when they did shake down cruises out there. Thanks, Offbeatbob
My Father enlisted in the US Navy in 1933 and was assigned to the lighter than air (blimp) ZP-12 squadron which at the time, was the only deridgable powerful enough to patrol the Atlantic searching for these U-Boats that were taking out our merchant marine ships heading to England. At the time, the US Navy airfield was known as Mariam airfield ( I think) its the same airfield where the Hindenberg met its fate in 1936, and yes, Dad witnessed the Hindenbergs accident. At the time,Dad was on leave,at home, which was 18mi from the airfield. Dad saw the Hindenberg in flight and followed it on his Indian scout motorcycle he salvaged from the local dump and used for his day to day transportation.
Interesting fact: The German U-Boats were much faster when surfaced, than the American submarine, but when submerged, The U-Boats were slower than their American counterpart.
Thank you for the narration and tour!🇺🇸🇩🇪✌️🤠
Thanks for sharing your father's story 😊
About the U-boats being faster on the surface, which ones did you have in mind? I thought they were generally slower 😊
Wow, such a fabulous insight regarding a Uboat. Such cramped conditions, loads of pipes, dials, boxes and handles everywhere. Thank you so much for sharing as this has to be a historic record of a Sub like this.
I was aboard the U-995 in late summer 2009, while visiting family relatives that live in Kiel and Lübeck. Extremely fascinating. I also visited the Submariner’s Memorial at Laboe, which is the WWII and I Memorial to thefallen comradescomrades, the WWII
Fun fact, quite a number of submarines were heading to Argentina in 1945, greetings from Berlin Germany 🇩🇪
Yeah, there are quite a few stories about this going around. The U534 was raised, expecting valuables to be on board
Very complicated War ship. Truly Amazing Technology of it's time. Courageous sailors. I get cloustophobic just looking at the cramped conditions . Great engineers to figure out the endless plumming involved , guages everywhere. And , no emergency escape hatches , or mini sub in case of a malfunction.
Very clear and well presented. Remarkable engineering - but sad how many died in these U boats and on the merchant vessels they destroyed. Rest in peace.
Thanks for watching!
Out of all the submarines ever built by any nation during any period of time the type VII-C is my all time favorite.
40.000 SUB-MARINOS ............... IMPRESIONANTE CANTIDAD // GRANDE PAIS ALEMANIA
This was a very well done, informative and enjoyable walk through and narration. Thank you for doing this.
Except seems the narrator failed to say much or have extensive knowledge of many parts, controls, and functions evidenced by his silence much of the time. Never showed and explained how the torpedoes were loaded into the tubes.
Thanks for watching!
@@x.y.8581 Then maybe you can do a voice over (with his permission, of course) and explain it all better? Personally, I think he did a great job on this walkthrough of a German U-Boat.
@@BecksHobbyProductions Are there any photos of what it looked like when it was salvaged? That looks like an almost perfect restoration, causing me to wonder what the condition was when it was 1st found.
@@evanscreekbrahman7511 I dont think it was as such "salvaged". It was handed over the the Norwegian after the war and they used it for some time after it was sold back to Germany to become a museum. From Uboat.net: " Post war information (see more post-war boats):
Taken over by Norway. Became the Norwegian submarine Kaura on 1 Dec, 1952. Stricken in 1965. Returned to Germany where she became a museum ship in Oct 1971."
I think someone in the comments also mentioned that a team restored it to as close as possible to WWII configuration when it became a museum.
I visited U 995 at Laboe - Kiel and the Kriegs Marine museum twice 1974 and 1986 ! Great experience !
Fascinating video, thanks for uploading it. I myself am a serving Submariner and the differences between then and now are stark, although some things haven't changed. There's still valves and gauges everywhere you look. I can't imagine a bilge pump in the control room! I am very thankful that I've only known nuclear submarines. Those blokes serving on the U995 must have been tough as nails.
Thanks for your comment and service :)
It clearly takes a very special person to be able to handle anything as tedious as this... my hats off to all submariners past current and future.
I like how we can hear “It’s A Long Way To Tipperary” 15 mins in! Nice work here. Thanks 🙏
It certainly is - good catch. It's a little reference to the best submarine movie/series ever made (in my opinion) 🙂
@@BecksHobbyProductions I agree. It’s one of my most favorite movies and I watch it at least once or twice a year.
A real appreciation for what was required during wartime, no matter what side they were on.
outstanding video. any person of any nationality that serves,served on subs has my undying admiration.
Learned about the U boats for many years and this is amazing. Could never imagine the courage demanded from these men. The constant threat of catastrophe. Men of Steel as are all submariners. Incredible.
Such an amazing example of submarine technology of the era. Thanks for sharing.
These were diesel of course. Nowadays many subs use steam engines.
@@PatKittle Not steam engines. Modern subs are propelled by steam driven turbines, which are powered by a nuclear reactor.
The BBC on the electric engines means "Brown Boveri & Company", a Swiss company that had a subsidiary in Germany in the town of Mannheim. By 1937 15,000 people worked there. Another Mannheim company, MWM (Motorenwerke Mannheim) built U-Boat diesel engines, so both electric and diesel engines for the U-Boats were made in Mannheim, which was one reason why Mannheim became a prime target of the allied bombings. Mannheim was the German city with most air raids of all German towns during WW II. By the end of the war, only about 100,000 of the original 300,000 inhabitants still lived there.
I know the narrator says the same, but electric motors are motors and internal combustion engines are engines.
Thank you for providing the information on the markings found on the motors and diesel engines. Most interesting.
The size of the torpedoes always impresses me. Beautiful tour of a beautiful and fascinating machine. Brings back memories of stalking convoys in Silent Hunter.
They are huge. I am tour guide on a submarine and there is a torpedo on display so I am constantly reminded of the size.
Outstanding Video...Best Walk-Thru Tour I've seen on an "Underwater" Boat. With an accurate intel narrative, and the exterior photography perspectives reveal how menacing these North Atlantic Wolves really were. In addition, the condition of this ship is marvel-worthy.
I have watched the movie Das Boot many times and having that walkthrough puts it into perspective a lot more. Thanks, very entertaining , the sailors who went to war in these subs were brave men!
just watched that das boot last night , all the work then blown up on dry land .
Don't watch the movie which was an afterthought due to the success of Das Boot German 1981 TV series with subtitles. You get 16 eps each 45mins long, rather than the truncated 2hr 30m film. Make sure it's the original series & not Sky derivative.
@@seltaeb3302 So they had a German series made before the movie came out?
Were can one watch the series?
Thank you
It originally aired as 3 episodesar ~2hours each. I found it on DVD
i toured an american ww2 sub. and it sure was a cramped situation. Im glad i went army..and alotta respect to those fella's who did this duty...incredible. thanks for the German tour!!
The sub crews were (and still is) a special breed. That's for sure
I like the sound effects as you tour. Nice touch.
13:00 I was able to climb the ladder to a windowed area on the USS Lionfish. My guess is they blocked off these areas to prevent accidental falls. There was an inaccessible floor below that one could see through window panes.
The U 505 at the Music of Science and Industry in Chicago, Ill. is a type IXC
I am one of those who was introduced to the German U-boat story through the film in the early 1980s. Seeing this walk through tour I see the film producers and set dressers had their details spot-on for "Das Boot"
I started my fascinating with submarines when my dad sat me down to watch the Dad Boot series.
@@BecksHobbyProductions I had read the original film was to be a series but it seems to never been realized unless there was a series forGerman television. Please clarify if you can.
The series was created back then. The movies (Theatrical/Directors cut) were condensed versions of the same footage :)
You need to search for the Das Boot uncut version. Its about 5 hours long running time :) I highly recommend it.
@@BecksHobbyProductions Thanks for the clarification, I will look for it.
A fantastic walkthrough thank you, what an amazing feat of engineering this sub was, every part this had to be made and assembled and in the 1940's, i'm so impressed with the quality of workmanship.
Thank you for the kind comment. Submarines in general do seem so complicated, but each person assigned to each area knew exactly what they were working with, but still pretty amazing :)
That sub is in superb condition! Hopefully it's been maintained to that high standard for future generations to learn from.
Hopefully so 👍
I am currently reading The War Beneath the sea by Peter Padfield, it provides an excellent insight into the submarines, equipment and tactics utilised by all combatant nations of WW2. Obviously the bulk of the subject focuses on the U Boat war. This video has really helped bring the story to life, it’s a lot easier now to visualise what life must have been like inside a U Boat but hard to imagine how the crews managed to live in such a cramped space for months on end in highly stressful conditions. These were young men who from the end of 1943 knew they might not ever return, the “Happy Time” was long over and Allied anti submarine technology meant attacking convoys in boats like this type 7 was virtually suicidal. Thanks for the video, great job!
Thanks for the kind feedback - it was valuable for you :)
Big rich...another cracking book is u333...the story of a u boat ace.....by peter cremer.. a great read.
@@bunnyblatter thanks much appreciated, I’ll get it!
Thank you for your narration/information and your steadiness with the camera.
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My granduncle was Lt.Ing (Lieutenant Engineer), i.e. third in command, on one of these. His submarine was sunk somewhere in the English Channel. His name is inscribed on the Submariner Memorial, not far from the submarine in this video. He knew that he was being sent on a suicide mission and told my grandfather "If I should return, I'll become an Admiral", knowing how unlikely his survival would be. He mainly became a submariner, because the pay was among the highest in the Wehrmacht.
I'm sorry but it's hard to feel for THEM🐍
@@louisedwards4023 That's because you think it's all black and white, good and evil, when the guy was 21 years old when he died and didn't even start the war. I think he would have prefered not to go to war given the CHOICE.
@@generalripper7528 well I did say sorry. But my motherinlaws. Brother went down with the ship after a U boat. Sank her in the Atlantic. But on the other hand maby he sank a sub or two. I guess we've all got a part of life we wish we could change! Thanks for getting me strate😞
My dad was 3rd watch officer on U-969 in the Med. We toured this VIIC when we were in Germany in 1975. 20 years later I had the chance to visit San Fransisco and tour USS Pampanito. Like a cruise ship compared to a row boat.
I hope you had the opportunity to hear what he had experienced and seen. I have also been on the USS Pampanito a couple of times. It really is a world of difference in crew comfort.
@@BecksHobbyProductions I did. I was in Phoenix in 97-98 doing the last semester for my BSC EET. Had to take a history course and do a report. I chose to compare US fleet actions and subs to the German ones. Flew home over Christmas and "interviewed" my dad. All sorts of things, from his time in Flensburg, to his cadet cruise, first operational sub, being sent to Danzig to help bring the second one into commission, the trip to the Med, the bases there, and a lot more. Did really well on the report, but lost it in the move back to Canada. Same with the tapes. Never did it again, and dad passed in 2005. One thing he did was get me a copy of Ten Years and 20 days, the autobiography of Donitz. Reading that, I can understand why the crews went out time after time, even towards the end, knowing that 3 out of 4 boats never came back. The U-boat memorial in Laboe is visited daily by hundreds of people, and even has tributes from enemies.
@@sabrekai8706 besides the all the positive comments on my content, which I really am thankful for, its stories like this which gets to me. Stories like yours, brings the video to life and makes it real. Thanks for sharing your story!
Noticed the recording of 'Tipperary" a homage to 'Das Boot' I was visualising many scenes from that series watching this.
30,248 merchant seamen lost their lives during WW2, so almost parity with the unfortunates of the U-Boot service
Yup...a little easter egg :)
Looks like the German sub in Chacigo. I compared that one with a 70's Russian sub in Los Angeles and found the German construction far superior and appeared much more comfortable. Great sound effects!
The one in Chicago is a type IX which is longer at has better range 🙂 A way to tell them apart is to look for the saddle tanks - the type VII has them , the type IX does not.
The type IXs range allowed them to patrol of the coast of the US and were instrumental during operation Drumbeat.
The sub in Chicago is the U505 and is the only surviving type IX on display in one piece.
The fact that it is a Type VIIC/41 variant which was pretty rare back then since it's the last Type VII upgrade and variant that saw duty in small production batches and the sole WW2 Type VII (and Type VIIC/41 I repeat) that survived is truly impressive. A thicker pressure hull rated for 250m instead of the baseline 200m, that's quite the beast!
Wonderful job, it was like being there in person. I loved the background sounds!!!
Thank you very much! I did spend a great deal of time putting it together.
The most excellent walkthrough I have ever seen, thank for the outstanding work
Thank you for the tour. You were straight and to the point, and didn’t add any unnecessary comments to it. Thank you for sharing
Thank you very much :) Its not easy to choose what to include and what to leave out, so I am glad you found the balance good.
Beautiful Boat! I cannot imagine what it is like to be a submariner. As close to Hell as one can get! I was a gunship Flight Lieutenant. Also, close to Hell. An unforgiving and dangerous environment. I salute those sailors! Thank you Becks for a wonderful walk-thru!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
Well, Flight Lieutenant, the first time you dive in a sub is ....interessting^^ You stare onto the depth gauge 10meters , 20, 30 "Oh not to bad" 40, 50, 60 "ok thats it, if something goes wrong now, you are doomed. But its an awesome experience, you have to "feel" it
Impressive, even when you consider that they (Germany )were able to build these complex machines in large numbers in wartime
17 a month!
Not just building, but engineering all the intricacies and allowing for redundancies.
Built in Belgium they were
Slave labor
@@daveautrey5858
slave labor was certainly used, but only in the last period of the war, the first boats were built in 1935, so in peacetime
Thank you for the video. I grew up in Chicago in the 1950s. The Museum of Science and Industry had the German U-505, which was captured in WWII. Amazing
Had the fortune to visit some years ago. The only type IX on proper display
WOW! soo cool to see a classic submarine in such good condition open to tourists!
Agreed! Let's hope it's kept like that
When it was returned to germany from Norway, it was in a bad shape. The bow section was completly rebuild, also the conning tower is just a mock up of how it looked in WW2. This however is the last remaining VII C submarine in the world today.
My father was one of the survivors. Every time his boat got blown up, he happened to be on land leave...
Apparently his guardian angel worked overtime. Many prayers must have been going up for him.
It looks as though all it needs is to be put in the water, crewed, and an immediate launch could be carried out, just WOW!! Great video, thanks for taking us with you...
The volunteers supporting it, is doing a great job 😊
NICE job on this video. Great sounds effects. THANKS for no music! Excellent job!
I agree,the low key sound effects really made it.👍
You didn't hear "Tipperary" playing in the background?
You sure did :) A little easter egg...
Great tour. Good camera work . Thanks for sharing this 👍
What a marvelous piece of history..it's amazing to see all the components on a submarine..imagine being on this thing during war..these guys were very brave..I wouldn't last a day on there..
These are Very Brave Lads to have fought and died in these iron tubes!
Very brave and very dead. They were considered pirates by ordinary seamen who worked aboard ships as their regular jobs. The U-boat captains were machine-gunning survivors in lifeboats when my father was one of their (missed) targets. They were trying to eliminate personnel as well as ships. No sailor kills men who are in the sea. The laws of the sea are unwritten but older than land laws. This is the last U-boat of this type? Good. My father came home to work a job and raise a family, and the men who were trying to kill him are still at the bottom of the Atlantic.
He was wounded by the way, and the Germs taken prisoner by his ship went to Canada to eat and sleep and wait for the war to end.
Great Presentation, Photography and Dialogue !! Thank You.
An excellent presentation of such an important piece of history. Much thanks!
Such a cold ending for a warm life - Despite it being a killing machine you have to have some respect for those that served in them - Thanks for letting us take a look.
@@MrEnterthehole They were merely doing their job, much like everyone who killed from either side.
My grandfather worked on the submarine. After second worldwar, germany left kaura u995 in Norway. U995 was a permanent submarine for the navy in norway for many years.
History is sometimes closer than expected. I bet he had some stories to tell
@@BecksHobbyProductions Once when it was strong sea. The tower of the submarine fell off. The tower that is on u995 is not original.
@@Servicesncc Thats got to be some serious high sea :) But then again the Atlantic is not known for being forgiving
Fantastic tour thank you. Loved the sound effects, some of which came from SH3.
Having played the game a lot, it was like walking through a familiar home.
It is difficult to imagine the living conditions and fear in the brave men who served and died in these steel coffins. Don't care that they were nazis, most of them were just young men with a sense of duty to their country who died horrible deaths.
Glad you enjoyed it and the sound mix 😊
A good part of them were also from "Das Boot"
It's hard to imagine that three quarters of all uboat Mariners never made it home.
The sheer amount of engineering and technology that was handcrafted is staggering. One would think it would take years and years to build a single craft.
Really well done. Thank you for taking the time to make this video, and for sharing it.
Hope this submarine is going to be preserved for generations. Thank you for your video. I wish I would have that experience myself.
Best regards🤝🙂
The only missing thing is films or photos of the many Allies ships and lives these killings machines did. As the son of a Canadian sailman and decorated hero, I cannot see this without mixed feelings.
Impressive engineering but wrongly used for war and terror. Let's not forget that.
What incredible construction and attention to detail. It is remarkable that such a machine could be built. Thank you for the review.
Decades of iteration on designs I guess :) Thanks for watching.
Thank you very much! Amazing video. The occasional "ambient" sounds were cool also. What a beautiful specimen!
Great video. My first time seeing the inside of an uboat.
Excellent. Thx for a slow pan to give us a good look at details
Thanks for the comment. Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Excellent video, reading "Das Boot" at this time and this helped me get a idea how confined space was onboard.. Incredible engineering ,brave men of all nationalities who operated in these madly confined Subs...I salute Sir ;you if you have done any real time in one..
U should see the 80's movie with Jürgen Prochnow as the Captain.
At 15:33 the clock on the right hand bulkhead, i have one of these, together with the original key. My friends late father, was in the Royal Navy and liberated it at the end of war. It still keeps perfect time.
Masterpiece of technology for killer work... From France.
Amazing German engineering, they were way ahead of their time.
Globetrotter today to
Fortunately, the Allies had a secret weapon on their side: Hitler. LOL!
@@Azzaaz1977 japanese are always ahead of time
As a German, I have such mixed feelings when I see these things: For once, that immense ingenuity and effort - just impressive. On the other hand, I‘m so damn glad they got stopped in their tracks!
If only humanity could unleash these astonishing feats for SOMETHING POSITIVE, instead of for suffering, death and cruel and sadistic injustice!
This was really fascinating; thank you 🙏 for loading it. I’ve never seen the inside of a U-boat before.
Very, very cool 😎 and I loved the sound effects!
JbeckJ Absolutely. Plus, I don’t think I’ll ever get to Germany for my “dream tour” so thank goodness 😅 for people like you who also have a passion for history AND TH-cam!
JbeckJ Absolutely!
Fun Fact:
9th December 1945, U995 was surrendered to British forces.
In 1948 U995, along with two other German U-boats (Kya ex-U-926, Kinn ex-U-1202) transferred to Norwegian control as war reparation, and entered service in 1952 and became know as the Norwegian K-class submarine.
After it went out of service in 1965, it was offered to West-Germany for the price of one Deutsche Mark.
They declined the offer.
It was in the end saved by the German Navy League.
Thanks for posting this, very interesting. I can’t help but think of the courage it would have taken to go out in one of these especially towards the end of the war when the Allies really got their act together when hunting them.
Germany was the aggressor. Calling German WW2 soldires courageous implies they're somehow need to be admired for their actions. This is ridiculous. It's like calling a mugger courageous for attacking people on the street.