For educational purposes<br /><br />Perhaps the most important victory won by the allies in the West was the triumph over the deadly German U-boat. <br /><br />Once a harbinger of death for merchant shipping and its escorts, by 1943 the British and American fleets had gained the upper hand and the U-boat had become the hunted rather than the hunter. <br /><br />This film features extensive footage from the Battle of the Atlantic, and of U-534 the last surviving U-Boat in Western Europe. <br /><br />She was sunk in the Baltic in 1945 and raised again to the surface intact in 1993. <br />On board U-534 the treasures of World War II were preserved as if in aspic. <br /><br />Now for the first time in over 50 years we can experience again the claustrophobic world of the U-boats.
