The U-Boats Come In
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- (28 May 1945) German submarines have been surrendering and are being brought into ports around the country. Once in port they are striped of their armaments. A U-boat which had surrendered off Weymouth was brought up the Thames to the heart of London.
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The marked difference between Britain today and then is truly heartbreaking...
Was pretty horrible wasn’t it. I was brought up in the 1950s and can remember how run down everything was.
Don’t worry, we coped and are much better off now.
Yeah it was horrible in the 50s and 60s. It is a much nicer society now except for the racists
@@tombloomfield4784 ... Really ? You've been invaded by Abdools.
@@louisavondart9178 1/4 of the British Empire is made up of them, and most did not want to be part of the British Empire...
@@louisavondart9178 WTF?
Imagine the joy in England at this time… it must have been an unbelievable feeling
I think that this Movie Tone reel has the only image I've seen of a U-Boat covered in barnacles. Which means that the Germans did a magnificent job of keeping their boats in good shape. Even as supplies were becoming scarce.
I suggest that for the German submariners, they were just as relieved that the was over and they had survived.
More than 75% of them had been lost in the bloodbaths at sea, second only to Bomber Command.
It's worth noting, too, that there was animosity but them and their RN captors. Both sides were young men sent out to kill each other by old men at home.
The U-boats had an even higher casualty rate than the immense total suffered by Bomber Command. (~50% fatalities).
Apparently around Strathfoyle which is close to Lisahally where the U Boats surrendered near Londonderry ,there wasn’t a house that didn’t have a leather mattress , a brass clock or some other fittings that had been given to the locals by the German sailors before they were taken to POW camps the logic being that the U Boats were going to be scuttled anyway so the locals might as well have anything that was of use to them .
My Dad was an RNR Officer at Loch Eriboll during WW2 , he called it 'Loch Horrible'
We had a backbone then
We still have
Imagine if the Germans had only figured out that the RN was hopeless against rubber dinghies carrying unarmed military aged men.
When did the RN fight these people?
Is that a reference to German commando raids?
@@qanon5075 It’s a reference to what is going on right NOW, with daily landings by invaders intent on plundering the UK for all it’s worth.
The death rate of U2 submarine crew in World War II is over 70%.
Official Numbers of the Kriegsmarine.
70% is the agreed minimum, but 75% is more likely as it was stated 3 of 4 died at sea.
Those coming in to surrender were definitely the lucky ones.
Brave men on both sides .i feel sorry for the state of germany and england today refugees running amok.disgraceful😢
The U-505, captured off Africa in June 1944, was towed to Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA and is now an exhibit at the Science Museum in Chicago. Its capture led to the possession of the latest model of the enigma machine by the code breakers at Bletchley Park.
Absolute rubbish!, no enigma was captured!
..yeah right. Only in Hollywood.
The Germans suspected their codes were broken, and put a fourth code rotor in Enigma Feb 1942. This shut down allied access to German plans until after the seizing of a U-boat, U-559, with her codebooks on 30 October 1942. This enabled Bletchley Park to break the code once again. It is this game-changing capture that turned the tide, so the UK was able to feed info to Stalin and help him win the battle for Kursk next year. Dunno about U-505.
Remain united
Britain now is in the same state as Britain in 1936.
Не успели немцы настоящие подводные лодки ввести в строй из-за ошибочной (для военного времени) концепции строительства по частям на разных заводах и их последующей сборке. Потому и воевали только на этих "ныряющих" лодках. Если бы к 44-му году начали входить в строй настоящие подводные лодки.. всем бы нам было очень тяжело..
"The allies must remain united to prevent this from ever happening again". A war like this will never happen again...not with today's modern weaponry, The next world war.....we ALL die.
Yes, The leaders of all Countries need to Urgently sit down and Talk peace
I understand most of them were taken out to sea and scuttled. Too bad a few weren't saved for posterity.
Why didn't the Allies use these U-boats against Japan?
@@nghtwtchmn129 Ever heard of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
@@conveyor2 Yes, but the U.S. didn't know if an atomic bomb would actually explode or not when the last U-boats surrendered.
@@nghtwtchmn129 At the time when the war with Germany ended on May 8, 1945, the atomic bomb was not yet fully developed. The first test took place two months later on July 16, 1945.
@@nghtwtchmn129 there were few Japanese ships left to sink by this time
Millions of lives squandered trying to keep Britain British. They died honourably but in vain.
That "squandering" of millions of lives and the wrecking of the lives of millions who survived created lots of millionaires.
A leather mattress, oh the luxury.
Those huns knew how to fight a war. 😊
Britain is barely a Sea Power now. Actually, it's kind to say even that.
They sure look happy for the nightmare to finally end!
Gringo Given that they were taking 75% losses, they would be!
They went to Sea knowing 75% were on Perpetual Patrol. They knew it was the BIGGEST Gamble of their lives, but it was not the Eastern Front and death would be swift. God have mercy on the 75%.
German submarines crews and British and American bomber crews suffered the greatest losses in the war. Those who served in these units had to play Russian roulette. The human losses in both cases were nearly 75 percent. RIP for all brave men, never again war between people who are actually brothers.
@@callsigndd9ls897 They had some big huge balls - the sad part is, the world is a lesser place without THOSE kind of men. They should have put politicians into those death traps, instead of brave young men.
The only way the Allies obtained decent U Boats.
What did they do with the submariners who surrendered in londonderry?
Ordinary people amd most former troops back then wouldn't have wanted to preserve any of the expensive junk that caused so much destruction and the loss of years of their lives
What happen to the young of both the RN and German Navy
Hopefully went home to their families to grow old.
yes sad they didnt keep a couple as history pieces, would have been very interesting to visit one, somewhere in the UK .
guess they just wanted to remove all the bad memories after the war finished, also believe 100s of warplanes were crushed from both sides, that could have been restored, man they would be worth millions now, oh well thats life,
Rarity causes the price of an Object to increase. If it were common it would be thought of as rubbish to be swept away.
After the war, nothing was more superfluous than old war material. Scrap metal was more valuable. It didn’t matter if it was their own or captured war material. Everything that was no longer needed was sent in the blast furnaces to create new things ones. It was only in the 1970s and 80s that it became apparent that too much had been removed and thus part of history was erased. But it's normal. Everyone buys a new car after 10 years at the latest and the old one ends up in the scrap. 50 years later you say to yourself; oh, if I had this car today, it would be worth 5 times more today than it cost back then.
There is a uboat in a museum in New Jersey
There are 4 that are museum ships, including a Type XX1. One is located in Birkinhead.
Shame it started with loyal subjects of the Empire slaving away.😁
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Yes, yes ... Britian was fighting for "civilization" against the subhuman "huns" ... then who are the slaves in the first few frames?
Wie gehts! Dr. Goebbels said we were supposed to come here and join the occupying forces.
Say what?
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Huns Huns Huns.........................
Huns are Central Asian horse fighters, they are rarely fight with submarines (lol).
Ibrox is full of them
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