U-96: The Real Das Boot

Buy my book here: https://a.co/d/0fIpWMfH Support my channel on Patreon:   / hiddenhistoryyt   Thanks for watching, remember to like & subscribe! U-96 was a Type VIIC U-boat commissioned in September 1940 under Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, and she carried a small grinning sawfish painted on her conning tower that became one of the most photographed pieces of art in the U-boat fleet. Lehmann-Willenbrock was already a Knight's Cross holder when the Kriegsmarine assigned a propaganda war correspondent named Lothar-Günther Buchheim to sail with him on the seventh patrol in late 1941. That patrol included the brutal Battle of the Atlantic in winter weather, a near-fatal depth-charging in the Strait of Gibraltar, and the long limp home into a damaged Saint-Nazaire. Buchheim survived it, sat on his notes for thirty years, and finally published the novel "Das Boot" in 1973. Wolfgang Petersen filmed it in 1981. U-96 herself sank around 27 ships in eleven patrols and was destroyed in port at Wilhelmshaven by American bombers in March 1945. If you feel that this content in some way infringes on your own content please reach out to [email protected] #uboat #submarine #dasboot