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Originally Posted by andwii
Sure the orders to surrender were given but I still think I would fire a torpedo, and then head to argentina and scuttle the boat. No surrender.
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Easy thing to say from the comfort of a computer keyboard almost 70 years later, but even Heinz Schaeffer and his crew eventually found themselves in a US POW camp despite the sailing to Argentina stunt. As for Schnee, he may have witnessed what excesses the Red Army was capable of during the evacuation of Danzig's U-Boat bases, and perhaps decided that it wasn't worth alienating the Western Allies any further just to get a Parthian shot in.