The boxes came as a surprise to Paton and the team, who did not know they existed as they were packed in 1993 and remained untouched by the submarine’s previous owners.
It was taken over by Big Heritage in November last year and is in the process of being redeveloped. They had tropical uniforms but they were in the North Sea, so where were they headed?”Īfter being raised from the depths in 1993, U534 has been owned by Merseytravel and was on display at the Woodside ferry terminal as the U-Boat Story until its closure in 2020. He intended it to be a metallic political cartoon, but it became a. Paton said: “There was an Argentinian radio operator on board, and this had the fuel and the range to go to Argentina. passenger liner Lusitania was sunk by German submarine U-20 in British waters. Of the 52 members of crew, 49 survived and none were left onboard. U534 was the last U-boat to leave Germany in 1945 and historians suspect it could have held high-ranking Nazi officials who were planning to escape to another part of the world before it was sunk by two RAF Liberators in May 1945, 20km off the Danish island of Anholt. On January 31, 1917, Germany announces the renewal of unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic as German torpedo-armed submarines prepare to attack. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
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When translated and analysed, these could hold the answer to why this particular U-boat did not surrender at the end of the war, a mystery that has long puzzled historians.Īs well as going on physical display to the public, the discoveries will be shown on Big Heritage’s social media channels under the name How To Fix A U–Boat, with hundreds of amateurs and experts assisting in translating German documents and lending their knowledge and insight to help put the findings into context.Ī postcard found on the sunken U-boat. This is fresh stuff that no one has seen,” said Dean Paton, the founder and director of Big Heritage, a social enterprise specialising in education and heritage.Īmong the objects, which were remarkably well preserved by the cold water and layers of silt, are boxes of toothpaste and coffee, alongside postcards with Hitler stamps and hundreds of pages of secret Nazi documents. This poster was used as propaganda during WW1 to convince people to ration food and to not be wasteful with how much they eat and how much they make. “We’ll be looking at it on the Monday and it will be on display on the Friday. The cartoonist represents the German submarine as a shark, showing that the Germans are viciously attacking the U.S. The cliff Uncle Sam inches along in this cartoon displays phrases showing the danger of. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian 1915 when Germany imposed the worlds first submarine blockade.
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