What Happened to the German U-Boats After WW2?

When Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945, more than a hundred U-boats were still at sea. In the days that followed, they surfaced in quiet harbours across Europe, their war finally over.What came next was unprecedented: hundreds of submarines captured, studied, and deliberately destroyed.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:22 Surrender and the Immediate Aftermath
02:25 Operation Deadlight and the Scuttling of the Fleet
05:39 Transfer, Reuse, and Allied Naval Service
08:58 Survivors, Museums, and Legacy

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