U-BOATS: Hitler's Sharks

Chapter 1 - GENESIS 1906-1940

In 1906 was launched the U-1 and in 1917 the German Imperial Navy had 128 submarines. During the last months of the First World War, the success of the U-Boots seemed unstoppable until the aeroplane was incorporated as an anti-submarine weapon.

After the treaty of Versailles, the German command secretly undertook the rearmament of its armies, a process which speeded up with Hitler's rise to power. The outbreak of World War Two and the beginning of a struggle for ...