The missing watch of U-534
Feb 23, 2022
3 minutes
WORDS MARK McARTHUR-CHRISTIE
of 5 May 1945, Kapitänleutnant Herbert Nollau of the Kriegsmarine turned U-534 north in the Kattegat sea, just east of Denmark. She had been the last U-boat of WW2 to sail from occupied territory when she drew out of Kiel just three days earlier. On the previous evening, Karl Dönitz, newly the leader of the tatters of the Third Reich, sent a signal to his U-boat fleet, ordering them to stop all hostile
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