A German U-boat commander boards a Canadian passenger train in September 1943. He carries forged papers, speaks fluent English, and has traveled 1,400 kilometers through enemy territory. Military ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The post-war narrative of the German U-boat efforts follows several stages: the first “Happy Time,” followed by the second “Happy ...

During World War 2, the German submarine U-852 sank the Greek merchant ship Peleus, after which the U-boat commander ordered the killing of the helpless survivors. At the war’s end the U-boat ...

The 24-year-old German U-boat commander shifts nervously in his chair as high-ranking British and American officers bark at him across the table. The war is over. Yet Heinz Schäffer sits in an ...

On March 13, 1944, German U-boat commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck ordered his crew to machine-gun the survivors of the SS Peleus. We caught them and, after a fair trial, executed them on November 30, 1945.