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Secret U-Boats: Germany's Illegal Interwar Submarine Programme

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Following defeat in WW1, Germany was forbidden to build or operation U-boats. But in secret, the Weimar Republic's navy began illegally designing submarines and training crews to operate them. This was a decade before an authoritarian government in Germany, and is largely unknown today. By 1935, Germany was ready to unleash the U-boat on the world once more!

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Primary Source: 'Yanagi: The Secret Underwater Trade Between Germany & Japan, 1942-45', Mark Felton, (Pen & Sword: 2004)

Credits: US National Archives; Library of Congress; Prasenburg; Ralf Roletschek; Skannevi

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