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A handful of World War II U-Boats can still be viewed in Germany today and they offer a fascinating insight into that extremely deadly U-Bootwaffe technology so feared by the Allies during the war.

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Have you ever been inside a vintage World War II German U-Boat? Without having had to put on diving gear, I mean!?

By the end of The Second World War, the German U-Boat fleet had suffered extremely heavy casualties, of course, and a staggering 743 U-Boats had been lost. Many of the remaining submarines had been either captured or were confiscated and even later used by the Allies themselves after the war. Only a very few of these vessels managed to remain in Germany.

A handful of these exceptional survivors can be viewed in Germany today, however, and they offer a fascinating insight into that extremely deadly U-Bootwaffe technology so feared by the Allies during Word War II.

In the Deutsches Schiffarhtsmusem in Bremerhaven, for instance, the Wilhelm Bauer (U-2540) is on display. Constructed in 1945, the Wilhelm Bauer is the last remaining example of the then super-modern U-Boat type Class XXI. Attacked by a British fighter during a training exercise on May 4th, 1945, U-2540 was scuttled the following day. After its recovery and renaming in 1957 (Wilhelm Bauer was the first German submarine builder – way back in 1851), it was brought back into service in 1960, primarily used for testing, and taken out of active duty in 1982. It has been on display in Bremerhaven since 1984.

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