The True Story of Hitler's U-Boat War - Roger Moorhouse

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🗓️ 15 October 2025

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0:00.0	What was Hitler's thinking about U-Baut?
0:04.0	There's a moment where, you know, he sort of realizes the strategic potential of the U-boat,
0:09.0	but by that stage it's really too late.
0:11.0	Horror of Horrors, the British boarding party comes out to U10 and starts pulling out the Enigma machine,
0:17.0	pulling out all the code books. This is a huge boom for the British. Absolutely huge.
0:21.2	It's been lauded as one of the great British naval victories
0:24.9	up there with Trafalcon.
0:27.9	The conditions on a wartime new boat
0:29.7	just to have to be scarcely believed, frankly.
0:33.0	I mean, they're astonishing.
0:34.2	From 1943 to the end of the war,
0:36.4	only 16% of them actually succeed in sinking anything
0:39.7	at all. By 1945, statistically, the U-boat crew has a lifespan of less than one mission. So it literally
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