Before the United States formally entered World War II, the Atlantic was already becoming a battlefield between German ...
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 ...
U-boats are naval submarines operated by Germany, especially during World War I and World War II. The term is 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.
In May 1945, U-977 was close enough to surrender quickly after Germany’s defeat, but her commander chose a different path.