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Originally Posted by Thomen
Not all survivors I would say. There are some (or rather very few) incidents where uboats picked up survivors from ships they sunk, but that usualy were single person or even duo's (Hardegen, as example, picked one survivor up on one of his patrols and this survivor was placed in a POW camp after making port).
However, rescue missions for striken uboats would be great, IMO and those are historically accounted for.
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It happened more frequently than you may think.
The captain or another senior surviving officer was taken prisoner on numerous occasions.
More than once these prisoners joined the fate of their captors with the loss of the u boat.
There are accounts of survivors pretending that their captain had died to prevent his capture.