I've been to Europe twice in the winter but this boot is closed. Its my dream to visit. I love submarine's and hearing German spoken, they just go together so well.
The people who study submarine desogn myself included are so fortunate to have well maintained examples of all three U Boat types used. Having been on board two US submarines i am amazed by how people think the newer the boats are they wont be cramped!
I toured the Foxtrot class sub at Zeebrugge in Belgium, before it was cut up for scrap. It was surprisingly roomy and comfortable. Much more so than the Type XX1.
@@louisavondart9178 wow thanks wouldn't have guessed that doing the virtural tour of the type 21! Russians build good subs they get in a hurry to deploy sometimes. TKS for sharing. Take care!
Thank you for sharing! Truly amazing the engineering, effort and courage of the men who served on U boats. I personally knew someone who survived serving on U boats. 3 out of 4 never came back home! Gods grace be with these courageous men!
It reminds me of the guided tour I did of the HMCS Ojibwa when I was a kiddo. I can still smell the cheesy scent of 'navy vessel, 1970's.' They all have the same weird distinctive aroma.
My Opa, who now has passed, born 1925 was on “das boot” I am ever so grateful to see this video and imagine what his memories would be like. I pray to visit one day in person, I have dreamed of finding a photo of my Opa from this era.
That 21 has been very well taken care of amazingly well! Huge conning tower and the design of the rear of the sub is neat. Looks like the entire rear is a rudder but now that I think of it a torpedo would have less impact points? Twin screws down really low for additional protection quite the design.
A submarine that could be fully electric driven (apart from diesel) The germans were really way ahead of it times with this hybrid propulsion. luckily for the allied, these subs werent yet fully ready in 1945. Over 100 were completed but not yet operational
Way ahead of the type 7 and 9. Developed to late in the war and very few were made. The advances they made in electronics over previous boats is amazing. Had they had this kind of submarine at the beginning of the war Britain would have been doomed.
@Scott3717 but they came out too late in the war to make a difference. Plus, the fact that the allies could decode German communications they were sitting ducks for the Hunter Killer groups.
Yeah, the Elektroboot...Like some other late in the war german inventions luckily for us only few saw service. Super fast and silent underwater with really long range submerged.
The Type XXI submarines were the basis for future submarine developments for all Allies and their navies. If they hadn't turned up too late and in too few numbers, the end of the war would have been different.
No. The German navy was at no time ever capable of winning the War of the Atlantic. Ship losses were easily replaced, with one new Liberty or Victory ship being launched every day, but Uboot losses could not be replaced, nor could their experienced crews. In any event, the Red Army would still have battered their way into Berlin without help from anyone. It simply would have taken them longer, but they had all the time in the world.
@@louisavondart9178 Seriously? Then I must probably improve your knowledge about the 2nd world war and its history. Much of the meaning of Lend-Lease aid can be better understood when considering the innovative nature of World War II, as well as the economic distortions caused by the war. One of the greatest differences with prior wars was the enormous increase in the mobility of armies. This was the first big war in which whole formations were routinely motorized; soldiers were supported with large numbers of all kinds of vehicles. Most belligerent powers severely decreased production of non-essentials, concentrating on producing weapons. This inevitably produced shortages of related products needed by the military or as part of the military-industrial complex. On the Allied side, there was almost total reliance upon American industrial production, weaponry and especially unarmored vehicles purpose-built for military use, vital for the modern army's logistics and support.The USSR was very dependent on rail transport and starting during the latter half of the 1920s but accelerating during the 1930s (The Great Depression), hundreds of foreign industrial giants such as Ford were commissioned to construct modern dual-purpose factories in the USSR, 16 alone within a week of May 31, 1929. With the outbreak of war these plants switched from civilian to military production and locomotive production ended virtually overnight. Just 446 locomotives were produced during the war, with only 92 of those being built between 1942 and 1945. In total, 92.7% of the wartime production of railroad equipment by the USSR was supplied by Lend-Lease, including 1,911 locomotives and 11,225 railcars which augmented the existing stocks of at least 20,000 locomotives and half a million railcars. Much of the logistical assistance of the Soviet military was provided by hundreds of thousands of U.S.-made trucks and by 1945, nearly a third of the truck strength of the Red Army was U.S.-built. Trucks such as the Dodge 3⁄4-ton and Studebaker 2+1⁄2-ton were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front. American shipments of telephone cable, aluminum, canned rations and clothing were also critical. Lend-Lease also supplied significant amounts of weapons and ammunition. The Soviet air force received 18,200 aircraft, which amounted to about 30 percent of Soviet wartime fighter and bomber production (mid 1941-45). Most tank units were Soviet-built models but about 7,000 Lend-Lease tanks (plus more than 5,000 British tanks) were used by the Red Army, eight percent of war-time production. A particular critical aspect of Lend-Lease was the supply of food. The invasion had cost the USSR a huge amount of its agricultural base; during the initial Axis offensive of 1941-42, the total sown area of the USSR fell by 41.9% and the number of collective and state farms by 40%. The Soviets lost a substantial number of draft and farm animals as they were not able to relocate all the animals in an area before it was captured and of those areas in which the Axis forces would occupy, the Soviets had lost 7 million of out of 11.6 million horses, 17 million out of 31 million cows, 20 million out of 23.6 million pigs and 27 million out of 43 million sheep and goats. Tens of thousands of agricultural machines, such as tractors and threshers, were destroyed or captured. Agriculture also suffered a loss of labour; between 1941 and 1945, 19.5 million working-age men had to leave their farms to work in the military and industry. Agricultural issues were also compounded when the Soviets were on the offensive, as areas liberated from the Axis had been devastated and contained millions of people who needed to be fed. Lend-Lease thus provided a massive number of foodstuffs and agricultural products. According to the Russian historian Boris Vadimovich Sokolov, Lend-Lease had a crucial role in winning the war: On the whole the following conclusion can be drawn: that without these Western shipments under Lend-Lease the Soviet Union not only would not have been able to win the Great Patriotic War, it would not have been able even to oppose the German invaders, since it could not itself produce sufficient quantities of arms and military equipment or adequate supplies of fuel and ammunition. The Soviet authorities were well aware of this dependency on Lend-Lease. Thus, Stalin told Harry Hopkins [FDR's emissary to Moscow in July 1941] that the U.S.S.R. could not match Germany's might as an occupier of Europe and its resources. Nikita Khrushchev, having served as a military commissar and intermediary between Stalin and his generals during the war, addressed directly the significance of Lend-lease aid in his memoirs: I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany's pressure, and we would have lost the war. No one ever discussed this subject officially, and I don't think Stalin left any written evidence of his opinion, but I will state here that several times in conversations with me he noted that these were the actual circumstances. He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so. Joseph Stalin, during the Tehran Conference during 1943, acknowledged publicly the importance of American efforts during a dinner at the conference: "Without American machines the United Nations could never have won the war." In a confidential interview with the wartime correspondent Konstantin Simonov, the Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov is quoted as saying: Today [1963] some say the Allies didn't really help us ... But listen, one cannot deny that the Americans shipped over to us material without which we could not have equipped our armies held in reserve or been able to continue the war. .And to your statement that the Germans in the Atlantic have not been able to hinder American supplies. you should know. In 1940, after the successful western campaign, provisional submarine bases began to be set up in Brest and on the Bay of Biscay in Lorient, Saint-Nazaire and La Rochelle (Brest submarine repair yard, submarine bunker in Lorient, in St-Nazaire and in La Rochelle). These facilities were expanded with the help of forced laborers, and bunkers were to be built for several submarines each, which could also withstand air raids. Thanks to these new ports on the Bay of Biscay, the submarines could reach the areas of operation on the western approaches to the British Isles much more quickly. The Allied convoys were only weakly secured due to a lack of escort ships, which were in the repair yards due to the failed British invasion of Norway. This period was described by the Kriegsmarine as the "first happy time" of the U-boats, in which numerous Allied ships were sunk with relatively few own losses. The most successful were commanders Otto Kretschmer (U 99), Günther Prien (U 47) and Joachim Schepke (U 100), who were celebrated as heroes by German propaganda. On August 17, 1940, Germany responded to the British blockade by declaring a counter-blockade. The blockade area coincided pretty much exactly with the zone that US President Roosevelt had banned American ships from entering on November 4, 1939. The U-boats were thus given the right to sink without warning within this area, with the exception of hospital ships and neutrals, who had to use certain contractually agreed routes such as the "Schwedenweg". Approximately 4.5 million GRT of Allied shipping was sunk during this period. January 1941 to December 1941 On June 20, 1941, U 203 under commander Rolf Mützelburg reported the sighting of the US battleship USS Texas in the blockade area. In this situation, the German command issued the order to the U-boats to stop attacking security vehicles. In July, US President Roosevelt gave the US Navy the order to attack German submarines and repeated this order in September 1941. On September 4, 1941, U 652 (Commander: Fraatz) was 180 nautical miles southwest of Reykjavík by the US destroyer USS Greer attacked with depth charges and fired two torpedoes in defense. The defensive measure was expressly approved by the German leadership. Similar attacks were increasingly repeated. The US went into open hostilities against German U-boats without a declared state of war. During this time, the U-boats sank about 3 million GRT of enemy shipping. So those are the facts for my statement, for better understanding for you. All of this happened with the Type VII.C submarines. The so-called Atlantic boats, which, in contrast to the Type XXI submarines, had significant disadvantages of all kinds! First of all, learn something about the history before you make such statements here.... Mfg Magnus
@@louisavondart9178 Reminder that the USSR only managed to win thanks to the US, had the White Liberals won the elections which they were close, very much, even Hover was among them, chances Germany would have been the one getting lend-lease, If Hitler had listened to his council and enacted the war in 1938 when the crops and industry were booming, they could have easily defeated England, in addition to aiding the IRA & Scottish nationalists,
@DanRage47 *...history must always be preserved, never destroyed...* Should have stopped there. What precedes the above is nothing more than irrelevant rhetoric.
@@EvilSecondTwin And your opinion is irrelevant rhetoric. It's due to people like you that history repeats itself. The only history that should go away is you and anyone like you.
I've lived in Bremerhaven for 30 years, I've never been there. Crazy that I look at it on UA-cam. Ps. At the moment the submarine is in the shipyard for restoration. The sailing ship "Seute Deern" in the background. Unfortunately it sank and is currently being scrapped
Nope, the submarine is still in her position, it isnt in the ship yard. For the record the "Seute Deern" is in maintenance, so we have to wait until the ship is repaired. Greetings from Bremerhaven
Hi......Beautiful....year 2018 U-995 Laboe Germany and U-534 Birkenhead UK were visited for me......I hope 2019/20 U-505 Chicago USA and U-2540....of course...........I hope!!!!
Amazing. Does it get in dry dock and repainted every now and then? I live in Cleveland OH and last year the USS Cod got a fresh paint for the first time in 60 years.
You don't know the rest of it. Post WW2, this boat was scuttled near the Flensburg lightship on 4 May 1945 and sat on the bottom until June 1957, when, after more than 12 years on the floor of the Baltic Sea, U-2540 was raised and overhauled at Howaldtswerke, Kiel and renamed Wilhelm Bauer. Pretty sure that's the world record for a sunken vessel being salvaged and returned to service.
@@geoffroberts1126 isn't it just astounding?! I can see raising sunken wrecks for museum display or similar but to put a vessel back into service after a decade wrecked on the bottom is unbelievable! If im right there was another sub (i think American?) In which many(maybe whole crew?!) Perished the sub was recovered the bodies removed and after an overhaul it was renamed and put back into service! Creepy, and if im not wrong its new crew suffered a similar fate to its original😢
@@shaunmcclory8117 As I recall, the CSS Hunley, which made the first ever spar torpedo attack which sank the USS Housatonic during the Civil War killed it's whole crew twice before it's ill fated mission which also resulted in it sinking with the loss of all hands.
@@sanftersegler457 mijn vader heeft in mei 1940 in Rotterdam tegen Duitse parachutisten gevochten. Hij was ingedeeld bij de mariniers. Mijn vader was zeemiliecien en opgeleid in Willemsoord, DenHelder. Rotterdam is een mooie stad en een belangrijke stad. Van Rotterdam lopen er brandstofleidingen naar Schiphol en Frankfurt Flughafen. Rotterdam is mooi. Schmidt vishandel is het bezoeken waard voor een portie kibbeling geserveerd op een normaal bord ipv een plastic bakje. Hotel New York waar ik wel eens een biertje gedronken heb en waar ik erachter kwam dat Madonna er geslapen had. Oké, dat was het voor vandaag. Morgen vroeg naar de Tesco in Keszthely. Viszonthallasra.
hello Vincent Snijder, I'm admin of the modelkitindo channel, I ask permission to hanging this video on my channel as a teaser, and I will enclose your channel name on the video and link in description ... thank you
Is this the sub that was sunk then they decided they needed it so they raise it, restored it and put it back in service only to decomission it then recommission it again
@@robertturtle It was built during WW2, so yes. It was scuttled at the end of the war. Near the Flensberg lightship. Probably record holder for the amount of time it was sunk before being raised and recommissioned. She was originally U-2540.
Think it's bad when their little wait tell they grow up 😡, were entering the 3'ed generation of disrespectful engrates who are NOT made to mind in the home and act up in public .
Too bad they removed the automatic torpedo loading machinery to make room for... reception :/ IIRC Type XXI could reload its 6 torpedos in the time it took 1 torpedo reload in any submarine before.
@Louisa von Dart Seriously? Then I must probably improve your knowledge about the 2nd world war and its history. Much of the meaning of Lend-Lease aid can be better understood when considering the innovative nature of World War II, as well as the economic distortions caused by the war. One of the greatest differences with prior wars was the enormous increase in the mobility of armies. This was the first big war in which whole formations were routinely motorized; soldiers were supported with large numbers of all kinds of vehicles. Most belligerent powers severely decreased production of non-essentials, concentrating on producing weapons. This inevitably produced shortages of related products needed by the military or as part of the military-industrial complex. On the Allied side, there was almost total reliance upon American industrial production, weaponry and especially unarmored vehicles purpose-built for military use, vital for the modern army's logistics and support.The USSR was very dependent on rail transport and starting during the latter half of the 1920s but accelerating during the 1930s (The Great Depression), hundreds of foreign industrial giants such as Ford were commissioned to construct modern dual-purpose factories in the USSR, 16 alone within a week of May 31, 1929. With the outbreak of war these plants switched from civilian to military production and locomotive production ended virtually overnight. Just 446 locomotives were produced during the war, with only 92 of those being built between 1942 and 1945. In total, 92.7% of the wartime production of railroad equipment by the USSR was supplied by Lend-Lease, including 1,911 locomotives and 11,225 railcars which augmented the existing stocks of at least 20,000 locomotives and half a million railcars. Much of the logistical assistance of the Soviet military was provided by hundreds of thousands of U.S.-made trucks and by 1945, nearly a third of the truck strength of the Red Army was U.S.-built. Trucks such as the Dodge 3⁄4-ton and Studebaker 2+1⁄2-ton were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front. American shipments of telephone cable, aluminum, canned rations and clothing were also critical. Lend-Lease also supplied significant amounts of weapons and ammunition. The Soviet air force received 18,200 aircraft, which amounted to about 30 percent of Soviet wartime fighter and bomber production (mid 1941-45). Most tank units were Soviet-built models but about 7,000 Lend-Lease tanks (plus more than 5,000 British tanks) were used by the Red Army, eight percent of war-time production. A particular critical aspect of Lend-Lease was the supply of food. The invasion had cost the USSR a huge amount of its agricultural base; during the initial Axis offensive of 1941-42, the total sown area of the USSR fell by 41.9% and the number of collective and state farms by 40%. The Soviets lost a substantial number of draft and farm animals as they were not able to relocate all the animals in an area before it was captured and of those areas in which the Axis forces would occupy, the Soviets had lost 7 million of out of 11.6 million horses, 17 million out of 31 million cows, 20 million out of 23.6 million pigs and 27 million out of 43 million sheep and goats. Tens of thousands of agricultural machines, such as tractors and threshers, were destroyed or captured. Agriculture also suffered a loss of labour; between 1941 and 1945, 19.5 million working-age men had to leave their farms to work in the military and industry. Agricultural issues were also compounded when the Soviets were on the offensive, as areas liberated from the Axis had been devastated and contained millions of people who needed to be fed. Lend-Lease thus provided a massive number of foodstuffs and agricultural products. According to the Russian historian Boris Vadimovich Sokolov, Lend-Lease had a crucial role in winning the war: On the whole the following conclusion can be drawn: that without these Western shipments under Lend-Lease the Soviet Union not only would not have been able to win the Great Patriotic War, it would not have been able even to oppose the German invaders, since it could not itself produce sufficient quantities of arms and military equipment or adequate supplies of fuel and ammunition. The Soviet authorities were well aware of this dependency on Lend-Lease. Thus, Stalin told Harry Hopkins [FDR's emissary to Moscow in July 1941] that the U.S.S.R. could not match Germany's might as an occupier of Europe and its resources. Nikita Khrushchev, having served as a military commissar and intermediary between Stalin and his generals during the war, addressed directly the significance of Lend-lease aid in his memoirs: I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany's pressure, and we would have lost the war. No one ever discussed this subject officially, and I don't think Stalin left any written evidence of his opinion, but I will state here that several times in conversations with me he noted that these were the actual circumstances. He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so. Joseph Stalin, during the Tehran Conference during 1943, acknowledged publicly the importance of American efforts during a dinner at the conference: "Without American machines the United Nations could never have won the war." In a confidential interview with the wartime correspondent Konstantin Simonov, the Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov is quoted as saying: Today [1963] some say the Allies didn't really help us ... But listen, one cannot deny that the Americans shipped over to us material without which we could not have equipped our armies held in reserve or been able to continue the war. .And to your statement that the Germans in the Atlantic have not been able to hinder American supplies. you should know. In 1940, after the successful western campaign, provisional submarine bases began to be set up in Brest and on the Bay of Biscay in Lorient, Saint-Nazaire and La Rochelle (Brest submarine repair yard, submarine bunker in Lorient, in St-Nazaire and in La Rochelle). These facilities were expanded with the help of forced laborers, and bunkers were to be built for several submarines each, which could also withstand air raids. Thanks to these new ports on the Bay of Biscay, the submarines could reach the areas of operation on the western approaches to the British Isles much more quickly. The Allied convoys were only weakly secured due to a lack of escort ships, which were in the repair yards due to the failed British invasion of Norway. This period was described by the Kriegsmarine as the "first happy time" of the U-boats, in which numerous Allied ships were sunk with relatively few own losses. The most successful were commanders Otto Kretschmer (U 99), Günther Prien (U 47) and Joachim Schepke (U 100), who were celebrated as heroes by German propaganda. On August 17, 1940, Germany responded to the British blockade by declaring a counter-blockade. The blockade area coincided pretty much exactly with the zone that US President Roosevelt had banned American ships from entering on November 4, 1939. The U-boats were thus given the right to sink without warning within this area, with the exception of hospital ships and neutrals, who had to use certain contractually agreed routes such as the "Schwedenweg". Approximately 4.5 million GRT of Allied shipping was sunk during this period. January 1941 to December 1941 On June 20, 1941, U 203 under commander Rolf Mützelburg reported the sighting of the US battleship USS Texas in the blockade area. In this situation, the German command issued the order to the U-boats to stop attacking security vehicles. In July, US President Roosevelt gave the US Navy the order to attack German submarines and repeated this order in September 1941. On September 4, 1941, U 652 (Commander: Fraatz) was 180 nautical miles southwest of Reykjavík by the US destroyer USS Greer attacked with depth charges and fired two torpedoes in defense. The defensive measure was expressly approved by the German leadership. Similar attacks were increasingly repeated. The US went into open hostilities against German U-boats without a declared state of war. During this time, the U-boats sank about 3 million GRT of enemy shipping. So those are the facts for my statement, for better understanding for you. All of this happened with the Type VII.C submarines. The so-called Atlantic boats, which, in contrast to the Type XXI submarines, had significant disadvantages of all kinds! First of all, learn something about the history before you make such statements here.... Mfg Magnus
@@VincentSnijder It looks just modern. I don't have info these type of U- boats to take part during during WW2 or later. How effective would be such a boat nobody knows.
She's a beautiful submarine, that's for sure.
They were so ahead, it's crazy.
Was in this submarine while on a visit to Bremenhaven.
I've been to Europe twice in the winter but this boot is closed. Its my dream to visit. I love submarine's and hearing German spoken, they just go together so well.
I hope you will have a chance next time!
The people who study submarine desogn myself included are so fortunate to have well maintained examples of all three U Boat types used.
Having been on board two US submarines i am amazed by how people think the newer the boats are they wont be cramped!
I toured the Foxtrot class sub at Zeebrugge in Belgium, before it was cut up for scrap. It was surprisingly roomy and comfortable. Much more so than the Type XX1.
@@louisavondart9178 wow thanks wouldn't have guessed that doing the virtural tour of the type 21! Russians build good subs they get in a hurry to deploy sometimes. TKS for sharing. Take care!
Modern nuclear submarines are not exactly roomy!
Technically there aren’t any actual Type IIs left, but CV-707 (which was a prototype Type II built for Finland) is still around
Thank you for sharing! Truly amazing the engineering, effort and courage of the men who served on U boats. I personally knew someone who survived serving on U boats. 3 out of 4 never came back home! Gods grace be with these courageous men!
I've been on US Navy Subs and they look pretty close to one of these. I wonder were we got our ideas from. Lol
Both soviet and western subs post war were highly based off the XXI
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One of the best looking submarines.
It is truly overwhelming how complicated these things are. There is just rooms and rooms full of dials and gauges.
It reminds me of the guided tour I did of the HMCS Ojibwa when I was a kiddo. I can still smell the cheesy scent of 'navy vessel, 1970's.' They all have the same weird distinctive aroma.
And that thing was sunk for 12 years before being raised and brought back to service. It's in a perfect condition, it seems. Absolutely amazing!
My Opa, who now has passed, born 1925 was on “das boot” I am ever so grateful to see this video and imagine what his memories would be like. I pray to visit one day in person, I have dreamed of finding a photo of my Opa from this era.
That 21 has been very well taken care of amazingly well! Huge conning tower and the design of the rear of the sub is neat. Looks like the entire rear is a rudder but now that I think of it a torpedo would have less impact points? Twin screws down really low for additional protection quite the design.
Amazing they could raise and return her to service after all those years. Remarkable technology.
Superb boat! Video could be improved by not swinging the camera around so quickly.
A submarine that could be fully electric driven (apart from diesel)
The germans were really way ahead of it times with this hybrid propulsion.
luckily for the allied, these subs werent yet fully ready in 1945.
Over 100 were completed but not yet operational
Zwölf Jahre am Grund des Meeres und dann wieder seetauglich - unglaublich.
Tatsächlich..
jah der goete alte zeiten
nür noch atwas gekwatsel von onkel adie dan ware alles good
Thank You very much. Great Tour..!
Thanks! You're welcome
I saw this when I visited Germany like 5 years ago
Way ahead of the type 7 and 9. Developed to late in the war and very few were made. The advances they made in electronics over previous boats is amazing. Had they had this kind of submarine at the beginning of the war Britain would have been doomed.
Very few? 118 were made!
@Scott3717 but they came out too late in the war to make a difference. Plus, the fact that the allies could decode German communications they were sitting ducks for the Hunter Killer groups.
Yeah, the Elektroboot...Like some other late in the war german inventions luckily for us only few saw service. Super fast and silent underwater with really long range submerged.
The Type XXI submarines were the basis for future submarine developments for all Allies and their navies. If they hadn't turned up too late and in too few numbers, the end of the war would have been different.
No. The German navy was at no time ever capable of winning the War of the Atlantic. Ship losses were easily replaced, with one new Liberty or Victory ship being launched every day, but Uboot losses could not be replaced, nor could their experienced crews. In any event, the Red Army would still have battered their way into Berlin without help from anyone. It simply would have taken them longer, but they had all the time in the world.
@@louisavondart9178 Seriously? Then I must probably improve your knowledge about the 2nd world war and its history. Much of the meaning of Lend-Lease aid can be better understood when considering the innovative nature of World War II, as well as the economic distortions caused by the war. One of the greatest differences with prior wars was the enormous increase in the mobility of armies. This was the first big war in which whole formations were routinely motorized; soldiers were supported with large numbers of all kinds of vehicles. Most belligerent powers severely decreased production of non-essentials, concentrating on producing weapons. This inevitably produced shortages of related products needed by the military or as part of the military-industrial complex. On the Allied side, there was almost total reliance upon American industrial production, weaponry and especially unarmored vehicles purpose-built for military use, vital for the modern army's logistics and support.The USSR was very dependent on rail transport and starting during the latter half of the 1920s but accelerating during the 1930s (The Great Depression), hundreds of foreign industrial giants such as Ford were commissioned to construct modern dual-purpose factories in the USSR, 16 alone within a week of May 31, 1929. With the outbreak of war these plants switched from civilian to military production and locomotive production ended virtually overnight. Just 446 locomotives were produced during the war, with only 92 of those being built between 1942 and 1945. In total, 92.7% of the wartime production of railroad equipment by the USSR was supplied by Lend-Lease, including 1,911 locomotives and 11,225 railcars which augmented the existing stocks of at least 20,000 locomotives and half a million railcars.
Much of the logistical assistance of the Soviet military was provided by hundreds of thousands of U.S.-made trucks and by 1945, nearly a third of the truck strength of the Red Army was U.S.-built. Trucks such as the Dodge 3⁄4-ton and Studebaker 2+1⁄2-ton were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front. American shipments of telephone cable, aluminum, canned rations and clothing were also critical. Lend-Lease also supplied significant amounts of weapons and ammunition. The Soviet air force received 18,200 aircraft, which amounted to about 30 percent of Soviet wartime fighter and bomber production (mid 1941-45). Most tank units were Soviet-built models but about 7,000 Lend-Lease tanks (plus more than 5,000 British tanks) were used by the Red Army, eight percent of war-time production.
A particular critical aspect of Lend-Lease was the supply of food. The invasion had cost the USSR a huge amount of its agricultural base; during the initial Axis offensive of 1941-42, the total sown area of the USSR fell by 41.9% and the number of collective and state farms by 40%. The Soviets lost a substantial number of draft and farm animals as they were not able to relocate all the animals in an area before it was captured and of those areas in which the Axis forces would occupy, the Soviets had lost 7 million of out of 11.6 million horses, 17 million out of 31 million cows, 20 million out of 23.6 million pigs and 27 million out of 43 million sheep and goats. Tens of thousands of agricultural machines, such as tractors and threshers, were destroyed or captured. Agriculture also suffered a loss of labour; between 1941 and 1945, 19.5 million working-age men had to leave their farms to work in the military and industry. Agricultural issues were also compounded when the Soviets were on the offensive, as areas liberated from the Axis had been devastated and contained millions of people who needed to be fed. Lend-Lease thus provided a massive number of foodstuffs and agricultural products.
According to the Russian historian Boris Vadimovich Sokolov, Lend-Lease had a crucial role in winning the war:
On the whole the following conclusion can be drawn: that without these Western shipments under Lend-Lease the Soviet Union not only would not have been able to win the Great Patriotic War, it would not have been able even to oppose the German invaders, since it could not itself produce sufficient quantities of arms and military equipment or adequate supplies of fuel and ammunition. The Soviet authorities were well aware of this dependency on Lend-Lease. Thus, Stalin told Harry Hopkins [FDR's emissary to Moscow in July 1941] that the U.S.S.R. could not match Germany's might as an occupier of Europe and its resources.
Nikita Khrushchev, having served as a military commissar and intermediary between Stalin and his generals during the war, addressed directly the significance of Lend-lease aid in his memoirs:
I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany's pressure, and we would have lost the war. No one ever discussed this subject officially, and I don't think Stalin left any written evidence of his opinion, but I will state here that several times in conversations with me he noted that these were the actual circumstances. He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so.
Joseph Stalin, during the Tehran Conference during 1943, acknowledged publicly the importance of American efforts during a dinner at the conference: "Without American machines the United Nations could never have won the war."
In a confidential interview with the wartime correspondent Konstantin Simonov, the Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov is quoted as saying:
Today [1963] some say the Allies didn't really help us ... But listen, one cannot deny that the Americans shipped over to us material without which we could not have equipped our armies held in reserve or been able to continue the war. .And to your statement that the Germans in the Atlantic have not been able to hinder American supplies. you should know. In 1940, after the successful western campaign, provisional submarine bases began to be set up in Brest and on the Bay of Biscay in Lorient, Saint-Nazaire and La Rochelle (Brest submarine repair yard, submarine bunker in Lorient, in St-Nazaire and in La Rochelle). These facilities were expanded with the help of forced laborers, and bunkers were to be built for several submarines each, which could also withstand air raids.
Thanks to these new ports on the Bay of Biscay, the submarines could reach the areas of operation on the western approaches to the British Isles much more quickly. The Allied convoys were only weakly secured due to a lack of escort ships, which were in the repair yards due to the failed British invasion of Norway. This period was described by the Kriegsmarine as the "first happy time" of the U-boats, in which numerous Allied ships were sunk with relatively few own losses. The most successful were commanders Otto Kretschmer (U 99), Günther Prien (U 47) and Joachim Schepke (U 100), who were celebrated as heroes by German propaganda.
On August 17, 1940, Germany responded to the British blockade by declaring a counter-blockade. The blockade area coincided pretty much exactly with the zone that US President Roosevelt had banned American ships from entering on November 4, 1939. The U-boats were thus given the right to sink without warning within this area, with the exception of hospital ships and neutrals, who had to use certain contractually agreed routes such as the "Schwedenweg".
Approximately 4.5 million GRT of Allied shipping was sunk during this period. January 1941 to December 1941 On June 20, 1941, U 203 under commander Rolf Mützelburg reported the sighting of the US battleship USS Texas in the blockade area. In this situation, the German command issued the order to the U-boats to stop attacking security vehicles. In July, US President Roosevelt gave the US Navy the order to attack German submarines and repeated this order in September 1941. On September 4, 1941, U 652 (Commander: Fraatz) was 180 nautical miles southwest of Reykjavík by the US destroyer USS Greer attacked with depth charges and fired two torpedoes in defense. The defensive measure was expressly approved by the German leadership. Similar attacks were increasingly repeated. The US went into open hostilities against German U-boats without a declared state of war.
During this time, the U-boats sank about 3 million GRT of enemy shipping. So those are the facts for my statement, for better understanding for you. All of this happened with the Type VII.C submarines. The so-called Atlantic boats, which, in contrast to the Type XXI submarines, had significant disadvantages of all kinds! First of all, learn something about the history before you make such statements here.... Mfg Magnus
@@louisavondart9178 Reminder that the USSR only managed to win thanks to the US, had the White Liberals won the elections which they were close, very much, even Hover was among them, chances Germany would have been the one getting lend-lease,
If Hitler had listened to his council and enacted the war in 1938 when the crops and industry were booming, they could have easily defeated England, in addition to aiding the IRA & Scottish nationalists,
Beautiful sub, it was the shape of things to come
it looks so modern
@DanRage47 *...history must always be preserved, never destroyed...*
Should have stopped there. What precedes the above is nothing more than irrelevant rhetoric.
@@EvilSecondTwin true
@@EvilSecondTwin And your opinion is irrelevant rhetoric. It's due to people like you that history repeats itself.
The only history that should go away is you and anyone like you.
@@drowssapma Who are you? His lawyer?
the post war west german navy used this sub for some time so they are quite modernized
I've lived in Bremerhaven for 30 years, I've never been there. Crazy that I look at it on UA-cam. Ps. At the moment the submarine is in the shipyard for restoration. The sailing ship "Seute Deern" in the background. Unfortunately it sank and is currently being scrapped
Thanks for this update!
Nope, the submarine is still in her position, it isnt in the ship yard. For the record the "Seute Deern" is in maintenance, so we have to wait until the ship is repaired.
Greetings from Bremerhaven
@@Mr.Logic177 yep what Berat said. I don’t understand why ppl have to post some misinformation or their own crap false information
@@garage9283 Indeed.
Hi......Beautiful....year 2018 U-995 Laboe Germany and U-534 Birkenhead UK were visited for me......I hope 2019/20 U-505 Chicago USA and U-2540....of course...........I hope!!!!
Gotta catch 'em all ;o) 👍
Youll REALLY enjoy the U505 exibit! I hope to get there to. ENJOY!
It’s a Type 21 boat. I wonder if it even saw service. They didn’t enter the war until it was about over.
Una vera opera d'arte della tecnologia!......un vero gioiello!.....👍🙏
Thanks for uploading this. Can't see it face to face for a long time. COVID-19 sucks.
Amazing. Does it get in dry dock and repainted every now and then? I live in Cleveland OH and last year the USS Cod got a fresh paint for the first time in 60 years.
Not sure how they keep it in good shape
amazing that it is still intact, ...
... 75 years after the end of ww2
You don't know the rest of it. Post WW2, this boat was scuttled near the Flensburg lightship on 4 May 1945 and sat on the bottom until June 1957, when, after more than 12 years on the floor of the Baltic Sea, U-2540 was raised and overhauled at Howaldtswerke, Kiel and renamed Wilhelm Bauer. Pretty sure that's the world record for a sunken vessel being salvaged and returned to service.
@@geoffroberts1126 isn't it just astounding?! I can see raising sunken wrecks for museum display or similar but to put a vessel back into service after a decade wrecked on the bottom is unbelievable! If im right there was another sub (i think American?) In which many(maybe whole crew?!) Perished the sub was recovered the bodies removed and after an overhaul it was renamed and put back into service! Creepy, and if im not wrong its new crew suffered a similar fate to its original😢
@@shaunmcclory8117 As I recall, the CSS Hunley, which made the first ever spar torpedo attack which sank the USS Housatonic during the Civil War killed it's whole crew twice before it's ill fated mission which also resulted in it sinking with the loss of all hands.
2:43 Set up for a nice shot 90 degrees to port, although that range is awfully close. LOL
Haha, exactly ! Unfortunately could not rotate the periscope.
I just dont understand why there is nothing written in English in these german ships/submarine museums. Its is beatiful anyways. Wanna see it one day.
Годная тачка,для своего времени.Прочитал! Спасибо. Всех НАШИХ ОБНЯЛ!
Bremerhaven die geilste Stadt der Welt
Wie bitte ?
Rotterdam
@@antoniescargo1529 zum Beispiel!
inderdaad
@@sanftersegler457 mijn vader heeft in mei 1940 in Rotterdam tegen Duitse parachutisten gevochten. Hij was ingedeeld bij de mariniers. Mijn vader was zeemiliecien en opgeleid in Willemsoord, DenHelder. Rotterdam is een mooie stad en een belangrijke stad. Van Rotterdam lopen er brandstofleidingen naar Schiphol en Frankfurt Flughafen. Rotterdam is mooi. Schmidt vishandel is het bezoeken waard voor een portie kibbeling geserveerd op een normaal bord ipv een plastic bakje. Hotel New York waar ik wel eens een biertje gedronken heb en waar ik erachter kwam dat Madonna er geslapen had. Oké, dat was het voor vandaag. Morgen vroeg naar de Tesco in Keszthely. Viszonthallasra.
We do a little merchant raiding
Vincent, das Uboot wurde jetzt restauriert. Neu lackiert und mit vielen Extras für Besucher ausgestattet....
Ich wohne hier deshalb weiß ich das...
Vielen Dank für das Update !
@@VincentSnijder gerne
That u boot is in my city i love it
hello Vincent Snijder, I'm admin of the modelkitindo channel, I ask permission to hanging this video on my channel as a teaser, and I will enclose your channel name on the video and link in description ... thank you
Sure ! You are welcome to do so !
@@VincentSnijder Wow, thank you very much brother...
I was in this thing!!!!! So coool dude
1:19 what is the song from around？
Most likely WW2 period
Is this the sub that was sunk then they decided they needed it so they raise it, restored it and put it back in service only to decomission it then recommission it again
Yes, it is that one.
Yes, was scuttled in May 1945 and salvaged in June 1957. I think that's a record for a sunken ship being returned to service.
@@geoffroberts1126 Ok so this is not exactly a residue from WW2
@@robertturtle It was built during WW2, so yes. It was scuttled at the end of the war. Near the Flensberg lightship. Probably record holder for the amount of time it was sunk before being raised and recommissioned. She was originally U-2540.
This sub seems to be mostly engineering spaces and very little space for crew comfort.
That is the story of WW1 and WW2 submarines in a nutshell.
Bremerhavener so: I need to see dis
Nice type 21 sub !
Why do all these submarine tours have some bratty kid whinning. Don't people care anymore if their kid spoils the tour for the others ?
No, the only thing that matters is them.
Yeah, give him a whack round the head !!
Put it in a torpedo tube and press the red button (oh, sorry)
Think it's bad when their little wait tell they grow up 😡, were entering the 3'ed generation of disrespectful engrates who are NOT made to mind in the home and act up in public .
@@folkestender2025 😂👍🏻
Too bad they removed the automatic torpedo loading machinery to make room for... reception :/ IIRC Type XXI could reload its 6 torpedos in the time it took 1 torpedo reload in any submarine before.
I was in this submarina and didnt realize what it was until i became very interested in third reich germany when i was older
Wilhelm ist immer noch da
Hmm.. Zarah Leander.
Isas by the u boat
How torpedo z loaded in submarine from out side
through a hatch in the upper deck.
Really cool
Top
I live there
Meine Stadt .ich wohne hier
U,,2540
Dieses U-Boot hat im Hafen das Museumschiff beschossen worauf es ein 🔥 Feuer gab und das Schiff sank.
Uboth,,,,245
Die. boote.hätten.wir.bei.kriegsanfang.gebraucht.z.b.200.stück.
crying children !!
Superior German engineering.
MORE LIKE ACUMULATOR BOTE
You should wait until those childrens are away from you. Its was ao annoying that I almost turned off.
You are right.
Den Ton hätte man auch weglassen können - Kinder gequängel Nervt
@Louisa von Dart Seriously? Then I must probably improve your knowledge about the 2nd world war and its history. Much of the meaning of Lend-Lease aid can be better understood when considering the innovative nature of World War II, as well as the economic distortions caused by the war. One of the greatest differences with prior wars was the enormous increase in the mobility of armies. This was the first big war in which whole formations were routinely motorized; soldiers were supported with large numbers of all kinds of vehicles. Most belligerent powers severely decreased production of non-essentials, concentrating on producing weapons. This inevitably produced shortages of related products needed by the military or as part of the military-industrial complex. On the Allied side, there was almost total reliance upon American industrial production, weaponry and especially unarmored vehicles purpose-built for military use, vital for the modern army's logistics and support.The USSR was very dependent on rail transport and starting during the latter half of the 1920s but accelerating during the 1930s (The Great Depression), hundreds of foreign industrial giants such as Ford were commissioned to construct modern dual-purpose factories in the USSR, 16 alone within a week of May 31, 1929. With the outbreak of war these plants switched from civilian to military production and locomotive production ended virtually overnight. Just 446 locomotives were produced during the war, with only 92 of those being built between 1942 and 1945. In total, 92.7% of the wartime production of railroad equipment by the USSR was supplied by Lend-Lease, including 1,911 locomotives and 11,225 railcars which augmented the existing stocks of at least 20,000 locomotives and half a million railcars.
Much of the logistical assistance of the Soviet military was provided by hundreds of thousands of U.S.-made trucks and by 1945, nearly a third of the truck strength of the Red Army was U.S.-built. Trucks such as the Dodge 3⁄4-ton and Studebaker 2+1⁄2-ton were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front. American shipments of telephone cable, aluminum, canned rations and clothing were also critical. Lend-Lease also supplied significant amounts of weapons and ammunition. The Soviet air force received 18,200 aircraft, which amounted to about 30 percent of Soviet wartime fighter and bomber production (mid 1941-45). Most tank units were Soviet-built models but about 7,000 Lend-Lease tanks (plus more than 5,000 British tanks) were used by the Red Army, eight percent of war-time production.
A particular critical aspect of Lend-Lease was the supply of food. The invasion had cost the USSR a huge amount of its agricultural base; during the initial Axis offensive of 1941-42, the total sown area of the USSR fell by 41.9% and the number of collective and state farms by 40%. The Soviets lost a substantial number of draft and farm animals as they were not able to relocate all the animals in an area before it was captured and of those areas in which the Axis forces would occupy, the Soviets had lost 7 million of out of 11.6 million horses, 17 million out of 31 million cows, 20 million out of 23.6 million pigs and 27 million out of 43 million sheep and goats. Tens of thousands of agricultural machines, such as tractors and threshers, were destroyed or captured. Agriculture also suffered a loss of labour; between 1941 and 1945, 19.5 million working-age men had to leave their farms to work in the military and industry. Agricultural issues were also compounded when the Soviets were on the offensive, as areas liberated from the Axis had been devastated and contained millions of people who needed to be fed. Lend-Lease thus provided a massive number of foodstuffs and agricultural products.
According to the Russian historian Boris Vadimovich Sokolov, Lend-Lease had a crucial role in winning the war:
On the whole the following conclusion can be drawn: that without these Western shipments under Lend-Lease the Soviet Union not only would not have been able to win the Great Patriotic War, it would not have been able even to oppose the German invaders, since it could not itself produce sufficient quantities of arms and military equipment or adequate supplies of fuel and ammunition. The Soviet authorities were well aware of this dependency on Lend-Lease. Thus, Stalin told Harry Hopkins [FDR's emissary to Moscow in July 1941] that the U.S.S.R. could not match Germany's might as an occupier of Europe and its resources.
Nikita Khrushchev, having served as a military commissar and intermediary between Stalin and his generals during the war, addressed directly the significance of Lend-lease aid in his memoirs:
I would like to express my candid opinion about Stalin's views on whether the Red Army and the Soviet Union could have coped with Nazi Germany and survived the war without aid from the United States and Britain. First, I would like to tell about some remarks Stalin made and repeated several times when we were "discussing freely" among ourselves. He stated bluntly that if the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war. If we had had to fight Nazi Germany one on one, we could not have stood up against Germany's pressure, and we would have lost the war. No one ever discussed this subject officially, and I don't think Stalin left any written evidence of his opinion, but I will state here that several times in conversations with me he noted that these were the actual circumstances. He never made a special point of holding a conversation on the subject, but when we were engaged in some kind of relaxed conversation, going over international questions of the past and present, and when we would return to the subject of the path we had traveled during the war, that is what he said. When I listened to his remarks, I was fully in agreement with him, and today I am even more so.
Joseph Stalin, during the Tehran Conference during 1943, acknowledged publicly the importance of American efforts during a dinner at the conference: "Without American machines the United Nations could never have won the war."
In a confidential interview with the wartime correspondent Konstantin Simonov, the Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov is quoted as saying:
Today [1963] some say the Allies didn't really help us ... But listen, one cannot deny that the Americans shipped over to us material without which we could not have equipped our armies held in reserve or been able to continue the war. .And to your statement that the Germans in the Atlantic have not been able to hinder American supplies. you should know. In 1940, after the successful western campaign, provisional submarine bases began to be set up in Brest and on the Bay of Biscay in Lorient, Saint-Nazaire and La Rochelle (Brest submarine repair yard, submarine bunker in Lorient, in St-Nazaire and in La Rochelle). These facilities were expanded with the help of forced laborers, and bunkers were to be built for several submarines each, which could also withstand air raids.
Thanks to these new ports on the Bay of Biscay, the submarines could reach the areas of operation on the western approaches to the British Isles much more quickly. The Allied convoys were only weakly secured due to a lack of escort ships, which were in the repair yards due to the failed British invasion of Norway. This period was described by the Kriegsmarine as the "first happy time" of the U-boats, in which numerous Allied ships were sunk with relatively few own losses. The most successful were commanders Otto Kretschmer (U 99), Günther Prien (U 47) and Joachim Schepke (U 100), who were celebrated as heroes by German propaganda.
On August 17, 1940, Germany responded to the British blockade by declaring a counter-blockade. The blockade area coincided pretty much exactly with the zone that US President Roosevelt had banned American ships from entering on November 4, 1939. The U-boats were thus given the right to sink without warning within this area, with the exception of hospital ships and neutrals, who had to use certain contractually agreed routes such as the "Schwedenweg".
Approximately 4.5 million GRT of Allied shipping was sunk during this period. January 1941 to December 1941 On June 20, 1941, U 203 under commander Rolf Mützelburg reported the sighting of the US battleship USS Texas in the blockade area. In this situation, the German command issued the order to the U-boats to stop attacking security vehicles. In July, US President Roosevelt gave the US Navy the order to attack German submarines and repeated this order in September 1941. On September 4, 1941, U 652 (Commander: Fraatz) was 180 nautical miles southwest of Reykjavík by the US destroyer USS Greer attacked with depth charges and fired two torpedoes in defense. The defensive measure was expressly approved by the German leadership. Similar attacks were increasingly repeated. The US went into open hostilities against German U-boats without a declared state of war.
During this time, the U-boats sank about 3 million GRT of enemy shipping. So those are the facts for my statement, for better understanding for you. All of this happened with the Type VII.C submarines. The so-called Atlantic boats, which, in contrast to the Type XXI submarines, had significant disadvantages of all kinds! First of all, learn something about the history before you make such statements here.... Mfg Magnus
I am not sure that Germany really needs this kind of thing.
It is 78 years old
@@VincentSnijder It looks just modern. I don't have info these type of U- boats to take part during during WW2 or later. How effective would be such a boat nobody knows.
@@lrbib6828 ..