Hitler's Lost U-Boat 8/8
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- Опубліковано 24 бер 2012
- In 1991, professional diver John Chatterton discovered a sunken German U-boat from World War II, lying undetected only 60 miles off the New Jersey shore, its unexploded torpedoes and the bodies of its crew still aboard. This two-hour special follows Chatterton and his dive partners in their dangerous quest to identify the missing U-boat, a pursuit that takes six years and costs three lives. The U-boat's history involves unusual coincidences and a startling twist of fate.
While on a job here in San Antonio Tx many years ago, I met one of the owners of the Crown Steel Co. While talking with him, I noted a German accent. We somehow got to the subject of WWII. He asked me if I was interested in the event. I told him very much so. He asked me to accompany him to his office. He produced an album, he had served on a U Boat. He was 17 when he started. I really wished I had more time to spend with him, but as I stated I was there on business. I am probably not spelling his name correctly, but I will spell it as it is pronounced, Schpinhkoch. He explained he was a Norwegian and had been adopted by a German family when he was very young. I to my regret, never got back to visit with him.
It's ironic that the sister moved about as close to her brother as she could and didn't even know it.
Fantastic documentary; I was in the Vietnam war and have problems sleeping, now at 70, old "friends" tend to visit disturbing sleep. It is 3:45 a.m. and I was surfing UA-cam and caught this documentary which was fascinating! The forensic historians who identified this wreck are certainly to be commended. What WW2 and subsequent stupid wars prove that we often learn little about our history until we are too old and it is too late. One can only imagine the terror these submariners went through.
We also have learned through history that pacifistic nations are the first to lose and get conquered. As long as there is humanity there is always the threat of someone wanting the resources you have and if you are unprotected they will take it from you,, with or without force,, and no regard for losses sustained.. for that reason alone to have peace you must show force of arms..
Watched all 8 parts, very impressive
Thanks for the upload Reuben.
A very good documentary.
So sad for families and for history .. however the efforts of these people brought some conclusion .
Incredible story....highly recommend.
U-Boat crewman Otto's sister Barbara looks wonderfully young considering it was 55 years earlier that her brother was lost on U-869.
Great viewing, thanks Reuben.Much appreciated.
I found myself doing the same math. She looks like she's early 40's.
cappnzak she was born after her brother died i believe
Same noted here.
An excellent film and so sad. I did not realise how many U boats were sunk. So many dead on both sides. Can we learn from all this sacrifice ? I doubt it.
An amazing story! Why can't we settle our differences without going to war?? This story has moved me greatly. Alan, U.K.
It would be great to settle as you post. BUT... there were/are people as Hitler, Stalin, et al. Those people would not allow peaceful solution to happen.
There's too much money in war.
The path to war is not taken in a single step, but a multitude of tiny steps, each one rationalised at the time as necessary and perfectly safe. But like ice skating on thin ice, eventually the ice breaks and the world falls through. We can settle our differences without going to war, but it necessitates something that people struggle with - looking at the path itself. People live in the moment all of the time and can't break free of it. This is why we have wars. Individuals are merely a product of walking those paths for too long, they are a consequence and not a cause, the cracks in the ice that will fail. To avoid war, we must stop living in the moment and live in the flow. It is when you can feel the movement that you can step off the road to disaster.
Absolutely amazing. Google Earth shows where the U boats were sunk. I'll have to look again and see if U-869 is indicated 60 miles off the New Jersey coast. Should be since it was discovered in 1991. It's been a while since I've checked out any of the U-boats' sinking locations but was surprised at many including in the Gulf of Mexico.
I was stationed in West Germany with the U.S. Air Force from 1974 to 1977 and wish I had as much interest in WW II history as I do now. My German ancestors came to America in the 1600's and although I knew I am of German descent I did not know about any of them then. Dagnabbit!
I just watched a series on Albert Goering and then about Hitler having gone to Argentina and died there in 1962 and then I ran into this one about U-869. Thanks to everyone who posts documentaries like this on You Tube.
This is obviously true but I'd like to see more proof on some of the other stuff. Someone somewhere is hiding the truth from us.
Impressive story of this u boat!!
Get the book, way more information about it.
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Amazing Thanks
That was a great to watch all eight episodes.
It is good to hear Roy Scheider's voice again on a documentary. However the sound track is too fast for the video.
A Truly tragic story of the cost of war to ordinary people like myself who in their innocence and missdirected belief,alway have to fight them.Yes sadly the survivors have scars that last A lifetime.We do terrible things in war,either directly,or indirectly,you are part of the same killing machine and have to face this some day.Yes I feel for those men and their families,even though my family fought them during ww2,but I have had to face my own complicent guilt during the Vietnam war,and there are nights I cry myself to sleep,over the entire guilt of mankind and the evil we all have a certain capacity to do.All youth is foolish,and our young must never be fooled by people who live for the glorification of war
thanks
Great documentary. It would be interesting to know exactly how she went down.
Later research by the US Coast Guard and others determined she was actually most likely sunk in action against two US destroyer escorts who reported attacking and sinking (oil and debris were seen) a sub in the right area at the right time. The first damaged it with a Hedgehog attack and the other then finished it off with a depth charge.
One of the original discoverers still thinks the returning torpedo theory is a better fit (he makes the implausible, IMHO, assertion that the U-boat sank itself while the escorts just attacked an already down sub), but as far as the US military is concerned two of their ships sank the U-869 on February 11th, 1945.
Duty Raab U.S.A
Yeah I was looking into this case just recently. Unless one or two [depth]charges were able to lodge onto the boat, I couldn't see that kind of damage done. I believe the circle runner theory is correct given the history of highly malfunctioning torpedoes at that time. I'm sure the US ships did drop and caused damage to already dead sub. But I don't agree they should get any credit for the kill. Still, can you imagine what kind of terror that must have been like for those poor souls. I think the "lucky" ones were killed instantaneous, or were knocked unconscious before drowning.
if the cgi of the damage on the wreck is correct, there is little doubt it was hit by a torpedo. depth charges are designed to damage using concussion and blast waves, even one sat right on the hull would not inflict the type of damage seen here.
A torpedo on the other hand, which is designed to punch through armour and explode, would do exactly the sort of damage seen on the wreck. Whether or not it was one of its own, or a ship/aircraft launched torpedo, is another question, but i see little doubt it was sunk by a torpedo, give the damage pattern
Tam Kinnear-Swift I think you and X are SERIOUSLY underestimating the effect a Hedgehog can have on a sub, especially as the water pressure would greatly enhance the effect. Add in the long term damage from age and rust and you could get that sort of damage - and that's assuming no one tried to salvage any of it and caused more damage (just because there is no record doesn't mean it didn't happen as the recent string of disappearing WW2 wrecks in the South Pacific prove).
May They All Rest in Eternal Peace.
Very interesting
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for no good reason
Ufff!! Touché!! In honor how died in the war..
wonder if the crew really might have scuttled the boat intending to make it to the shore of the US ?
his daughter looks too young to have been born when the father was 17 in 1945 ?
For heaven's sake, read the bloody book! ("Shadow Diver") ... while interesting this is quite abbreviated ...
IS it possible those spare part boxes marked U 869 were sent to another U boat due to shortages of spare parts or by mistake?
+bigfella65 That's not an uncommon occurrence in the military, especially when a fighting force is in critical shape as Germany was near the end of the war. That being said, records from the Allied Ultra program confirm that there was a prolonged lapse in communication between U 869 and their command element. That combined with the knowledge that their original mission put them in range of the found wreckage and the found tool box leaves little speculation on which U boat was found.
+Peaches Well said, not to mention that both Horenburg and the box that on paper belong to U 869 both ending up on a different boat together is probably 0.00%
poljana Yeah, exactly. I don't know how I forgot that part.
never forgotten
A parts box marked --- is not proof of the u boats ## . Parts are interchangeable
Dave Amburgey True, but a parts box and a knife engraved with one of the sailors name is about as definitive as it’s going to get with the shape the wreck is in.
@@jayss10 As well as the communications relating to Ultra and U-Boat command.
Cool German than USA lol
Although the Commander of U-869 ordered his entire crew that they were never to use the Nazi salute on board, even though they had received direct orders to do so, and he was utterly aghast and disgusted at the Nazi's attitudes towards Jews, he and his crew were waging war in full support of the Nazi and to further their objectives.
These men died exactly as they intended their victims to die, they merit no sympathy or respect because of what they were and what they represented!
It was because of men like these that millions of men, women, children and babies were murdered on an industrial scale in the Extermination Camps!
I and many other intelligent individuals take exception to your crass and childish disdain for the crew of the U-869. War is a complex nightmare, and cannot be simply explained away in such an insanely stupid moronic dichotomic statement as yours.
You, Felix are in fact no better than the likes of Hitler and Goebbels with your generalizations about other folk. Your ignorance and arrogance are what fuels wars, Felix.
war sucks
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