The Smartest Sneakiest Trap Ever Pulled Off in WW2
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- Опубликовано: 11 апр 2024
- Plunging into the frigid waters south of Iceland on the hunt to intercept Allied Convoy HX1 145, the crew of U-570, helmed by Kapitänleutnant Hans-Joachim Rahmlow, found themselves caught in a living nightmare. The German sailors faced a barrage of malfunctions: poorly calibrated diesel engines that sent shudders through the sub’s steel spine, a broken air compressor that suffused their cramped quarters with fetid air, and dead hydrophones that left them as good as blind in the abyssal depths.
These hurdles might have been mere bumps in the road for a seasoned U-boat crew, but Rahmlow and his inexperienced crew, embarking on their maiden patrol, found themselves drowning in unfamiliar waters. Seasickness and plummeting morale laid waste to the crew.
The sub’s narrow corridors bore witness to their misery. Yet, driven by the crushing weight of their mission, they pressed on. German intelligence had spared no effort to chart the course of Convoy HX1 145, charging them with its destruction. They were determined not to fail their country.
But Rahmlow and his ailing crew had been deceived. There was no Convoy HX1 145. It was a ruse concocted by Allied intelligence to draw an unsuspecting U-boat into Icelandic waters for capture. Little did the beleaguered German crew know the worst part of their ordeal was yet to come.
What a great story! Thanks so much for always finding interesting yet little known stories from WWII. This is why I love all your channels plus you don’t even sound like a computer voice like increasing videos use!
I have never seen a submarine and thought, I would love to go underwater in that! The men who put out to sea are another breed...I admire their courage, especially with the history of submarines...too many lying on the sea floor. 🌹⚓
Search an intelligent comment ruined by the cartoons at the end
@@James-kv6kb search a troll plying their hobby
@@seymourwrasse3321 search Google sheep ,you probably won't find anything though
A golden opportunity on a silver platter is my kind of mixed metaphor. 👍
Took the words right off my keyboard.
@@rabbi120348sometimes it's easier to throw a stone than it is to kill two birds.
Whoever writes these scripts is a master of turgid prose. Could it be ChatGPT?
Was Chat GPT around nearly three years ago?
7:49 Franz von Werra, the sole German prisoner of war to escape from British captivity was at Grizedale Hall. This is in the film "The One That Got Away" , the lead role was played by Hardy Kruger.
Initially, Werra is sent to No 1 prisoner-of-war camp Grizedale Hall but was recaptured and later transferred to Canada
Werra was the only Axis prisoner of war to escape from *Canadian* custody and return to Germany
Gunther Plüschow was the only successful escapee from *British* captivity. He escaped from Donington Park, Leicestershire, England, and made his way back to Germany.
People who make comments like this could never produce anything living in fear of what others might think.
Great history!
So, they were mad at the U boat captain but, they all surrendered?
Mostly the fact that he didn't scuttle his boat and allowed it to be captured.
Since when does nazi law apply in America or Canada?
It was all explained in detail
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I expect that the "Escaped" Officer was well known to the British.... They had bugged most of the Officer's Quarters in their POW Camps during the war for intelligence purposes, and the Home Guard was probably alerted to the fact of an escaped Prisoner.
"A Golden opportunity on a Silver Platter." wow, add some encrusted Diamonds of Luck and you've got it as good as it gets! 🥳
Unfortunately for them, they weren't quite so Lucky... 😐
At least they lived
Never heard this story. A BRITISH U boat??
I don't think using aircraft was the conscious way of snatching a U-boat. Invented convoys presumably were 'created' but more likely to disperse and confuse attacker formation, not to single out a potential kidnap victim.
Interesting to hear mention of U333. Read Peter Cremer's autobiography when I was a kid. From Bremen I believe
How wrong they was about Britain, the fact that they had all surrendered & not gone down with there boat says it all as who r they to judge anyone in the same situation 🤔
A thicker Hull to avoid being crushed at lower depths is a state secret?? I could have told everybody that at 5 years old!😮😂😂😂😂😊
Enigma machines were also a bit of a State secret, which the video explicitly mentioned at least twice.
I was in the sub used in Operation Pettycoat. Berthed at San Francisco CA. There is not a lot of room. I would love to get a two week trip on modern nuke sub. I hear the food is great.
Think the Grise in Grisedale rhymes with fries (as opposed to freeze).
in those days didn't you mobilise many submarines at a time?
based on the state of the sub and the inexperienced crew I would assume they just didn't have enough submarines to do wolfpack tactics as often or even at all, the german navy was effectively crippled about a year before this so they were probably getting desperate
It was way off from the main passageways to spread there forces with deception.
A quote by a German sub captain, "There is no such thing as an atheist on a submarine during a depth charge attack."
I would wish my captain wouldn't be so narrow minded, that sort of thinking is of a narrow minded person and that person shouldn't be a captain.
Ah yes the best proof of gods existence. The fact that during most peoples peak irrationality they begin to believe in him. You know I like that fact. Shows to what degree of delusion you need to reach to believe that crap
@@fizzmoe9846 it's always amazing to me how much noise is atheist make to disprove something they don't believe in. 😜
@@RonGreeneComedian Yeah it’s almost like we hate how much its bad ideas influence our lawmakers, education, and children.
@@fizzmoe9846once you accept atheism and look at all the damage done by religion, it's hard to not become depressed, especially looking at the task ahead. Not only does religion as we know it need dismantled, but humans have to start taking responsibility for their own morality. If the religious could understand this task they'd be more empathetic...
Im just wondering, do they pressurize submarines so they can dive deeper? Like with nitrogen or something to minimize the bends?
I don’t mean just pure nitrogen, obviously a mix.
No added pressurization.
Imagine the volume of a submarine, just to pressurise it by one bar would require a massive amount of breathable ballast, and then you’d have to gather and store it again when the external pressure dropped etc. modern nuclear powered submarines have oxygen production using electrolysis (splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen) in order to remain submerged for as long as necessary, I suppose theoretically they could pressurise that????
A great story. Can we have a little more realistic commentary and a little less hyperbole
So why didn't they scuttle?
No ships to pick them up meaning they'd have been in the water a long time (so they wouldn't all make it)?
@@jorodo299 They could have opened the seacocks as soon as the rescue ship arrived, the British would ever have been able to find the seacocks to close them.
To me, going on a boat made to sink, on purpose, is right up there with jumping out of a perfectly good airplane......
WHY WOULD THE BRITS ALLOW PRISONERS OF WAR TO CONDUCT THESE TRIBUNALS @ ALL?
They are made to look like formal tribunals because of the misleading and essentially unrelated footage selected for this clip, but in fact it was a three man panel which escaped the notice of their captors. You can read about this and a subsequent trial when the captain of U-570 arrived at the camp - this trial DID come to the notice of the British authorities, and Rahmlow was relocated to another camp for his own safety: Google "Death of a Scapegoat" U-570
Yessssss.... Do you not think that referring to 'the allies' in a story about naval warfare in 1941 is rather misleading?... in fact, downright untrue? In 1941 there were no 'allies'. There was Great Britain and her dominions, in fact, her empire. In the Northern Atlantic, this meant Canada and only Canada, certainly not the United States. And at that stage of the war, Canada had no navy to speak of (though this was to change and change dramatically during the course of the war). And that was it. No USA. No USSR. No allies.
Well, almost correct. The German U-570 was captured on August 27th 1941. Germany had invaded the Soviet Union, two months earlier, on June 22nd 1941.
So, technically Britain had the Soviet Union as a war ally.
@@jonmorris3614whilst that is true, they fought in different theatres, however the British saw the value of the Russians tying up Germany on another front and that was the purpose of the North Atlantic convoys, so it was another burden on British resources.
That's nothing. In the movie "U571", inspired by the capture of U110 (from which, as correctly pointed out in this clip at 6:30, the British Navy secured an Enigma machine, long before the US joined the Commonwealth forces) the story was changed per Hollywood standard operating procedure in several significant ways: the US was portrayed as participating in the war at the time of capture, and it was US submariners who were portrayed as capturing the Enigma machine.
So does the imagery have any relationship whatsoever with what is being narrated, or the topic itself?
Most of these "docos" suffer from that sort of mismatch. This is no exception. The completely misleading footage associated with the "Council of Honour" (POW camp trials) is a case in point.
Someone send this video to Ten Hag and his bunch of losers..... He will learn some tactics😂😂
So now your channel is doing Clickbait titles
? The whole video is all about the title!
@@julesselmes There was no "trap" there was a sub in trouble and some depth charges. Half the video is about after the capture.
It was NOT the smartest and sneakiest trap. They tried to sink it and failed. False heading.
Unwatchable with the melodrama
Clickbait. Too bad for an otherwise ok channel.
The “Most Unlikely Terrible” end -this obviously was from the U-boats point of view 😂. But, damn, it was not just the “most unlikely” or the “most terrible”, it was the “most unlikely terrible” -could have gone further with the “MOST ABSOLUTELY UNLIKELY UNEXPECTED SURPRISING TERRIBLE AWFUL END & DEMISE…” Truly, the hyperbole used for clickbait reveals pathetically desperate effort to attract viewers.
Fact is, you got me to click! -but only to ridicule the gross exaggeration of the title’s hyperbole. The “Doc’s” channel used t be so good.
Do you know why they had the candy striped barber poles outside of the hairdresser ? it was because people couldn't read back then they were dumb. Now a certain company that we all know that starts with g is trying to take away your intelligence and they seem to be succeeding as you can no longer communicate in English. And what you don't realise is people think you're an idiot when you try to communicate like this it's not funny it's not cute it just makes you look dumb
Good content But every video I cringe at your pronunciation You could do research You pronounced Grisdale wrong for starters
Nerd. Real people don't care
And GB is garbage worldwide we know
It is disappointing for such an otherwise well produced show
Nerd!
How about you be thankful you've got something to watch . And if you know so much about producing RUclips videos why aren't we seeing your channel
What terrible writing , like the worst of the yellow press !
Your weird drama voice is really bad at narration.
There was never a Nazi U-boat. They were vessels of the Kriegsmarin, ie the German navy, not of the Natzional Arbieten Partei.
Semantics
They were loyal to the nazis and killed on their behalf.
Found the collaborator
The semantics game really. These guys were sinking cargo ships primarily. Not heros or worthy of some better designation. You might be able to argue for an individual or crew but I'm not otherwise honoring these guys.
A distinction without a difference. Who controlled the Kriegsmarin? Nazis.
Most in the Kriegsmarine weren't nazis. A poor title choice.
No they were santa clauss stfu
They were german nazis and they were defeated!
Lol
Still German
Sure, the navy no matter where is always the most conservative and blindly disciplined element of the armed forces.
The voice patterns is not male so usibg money to say your safe to speak ,? The army,?x/4578×2
Can we have that in English please