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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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/icCmf8Jhp7q3mac.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

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?

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...!!!

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.

Always great to get feedback from someone who actually served in a submarine. Thanks for your comment and watching 🙂

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

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.

Agree. They represent a space where machine really meets man. A very hands on experience.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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..

Not to mention how complicated the spacecraft and engines were for the Apollo program. Quite amazing what's possible with the right motivation.

@@BecksHobbyProductions kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qsmcdMWI26jYZ2Q.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.

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.

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 😊

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.

Thanks for watching!

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

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.

I can imagine. I wish I could have seen the wall in Berlin

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.

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.

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?

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.

Thanks for your comment and service :)

40.000 SUB-MARINOS ............... IMPRESIONANTE CANTIDAD // GRANDE PAIS ALEMANIA

Glad you enjoyed it and the sound mix 😊

A good part of them were also from "Das Boot"

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.

@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.

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 :)

alden moore has models

Apparently his guardian angel worked overtime. Many prayers must have been going up for him.

@@MrEnterthehole They were merely doing their job, much like everyone who killed from either side.

Thank you very much! I did spend a great deal of time putting it together.

Hopefully so 👍

Agree, I could not have done it either...

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.

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 volunteers supporting it, is doing a great job 😊

Yeah, there are quite a few stories about this going around. The U534 was raised, expecting valuables to be on board

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.

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.

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😞

I subscribe to the belief that in a war you fight for your country and not for a political belief. I can't find the source but I remember reading a story about a German and British submarine, which came across each other in WWII. Rather than shooting at each other they decided the job as a submariner was dangerous enough, so no point of them trying to kill each other. Again, I do t have the source so could also be just another war story ...

Thanks for watching 😊

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...

U should see the 80's movie with Jürgen Prochnow as the Captain.

The sub crews were (and still is) a special breed. That's for sure

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

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 KZfaq!

JbeckJ Absolutely!

KZfaqr: Hope you enjoyed it. Here is another one : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fLCPgpd1sMnIm5s.html

@@BecksHobbyProductions Your narration voice and inflections is really well done.

Thank you very much. I actually hate hearing my own voice on the videos :)

Decades of iteration on designs I guess :) Thanks for watching.

Thank you very much for the kind comments! ☺️

I agree that there is very little in form of explanations in the submarine itself, however this video cant substitute the feel of walking through this steel tube...I highly recommend it.

Had the fortune to visit some years ago. The only type IX on proper display

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.

I was in the U - Boot in Laboe when i was a little boy. I can remember the smell of sweat and diesel, electric engine brushes and oil, grease. When i visit the boot it was in a older condition, near original. They have painted them new and installated new lights. In the older condition it was very dark inside and u can feel how small it is inside. Over 50 Persons inside is unbelivable, this was a hard job over many month.

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.

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.