From as early as the end of 1939, the German High Command had ... for personnel to work on the XXI U-boats, the bunker itself ...

Its purpose was to build and test U-Boats. This imposing concrete structure in the German city of Bremen is 1400 feet long, 300 feet wide and 90 feet high, and looks every inch the secret Nazi ...

or U-boats, sunk, scuttled, captured, or otherwise lost to German forces during World War II. Here, naval historian Timothy Mulligan describes 25 of the most historically significant U-boats.

UC-97 became probably the only German submarine sunk within the continental United States. One of five U-boats turned over to the U.S. Navy for post-war study, she toured the Great Lakes as part ...

Discover top World War II historical fiction. These must-read WWII novels capture the era's drama, bravery, and humanity.

From a crumbling pill box in the UK to a derelict rail line in Hawaii, these are the abandoned Second World War places that ...

On May 10th, 1945, all the German U-boats were told to surrender. The U249, which was the first German U-boat to arrive in UK waters, came into Weymouth Bay and surrendered. The commanding officer ...

Sunken Nazi WWII ships have once again emerged in the River Danube, following a blistering summer drought that caused water ...

She is suddenly immersed in a life of espionage: transcribing recorded meetings between a British agent posing as a member of the Gestapo and British Nazi sympathizers, mingling with well ...

The ship was to travel to Canada as part of a convoy, a tactic used to help keep vessels safe from the deadly Nazi U-boat ‘wolfpacks’ which hunted Allied shipping in the North Atlantic with ...