Enough already! it was a NAZI u-boot! One of the simple joys of argument, rhetoric and logic is to hang the OP with his own petard...so to speak. Both world wars were fought under the auspices of the intellectual philosophy of Von Clausewitz in his post-mortemly published opus ON WAR, now required reading at all US military academies. "War is not an independent phenomenon, but the
continuation of
politics by other
means. Consequently, the main lines of every
major strategic plan are largely political in nature, and their poitical character increases the more the plan applies to the entire campaign and to the whole state." The uboot
course de guerre of both world wars was the
only strategy worthy of the name for Germany in both of its world wars in terms of theory, materiel and global strategy. As such, any strategic implementation of the politics of the German state in WWII especially of the Kriegsmarine would have been
indisputably NAZI to der führer, his principle miñion and successor Donitz, and every one of the all-volunteer, highly propagandized
'itchy necked' UBootwaffen, happily avoiding the consequences of the Eastern front and eating
sumptuously off of suitably decorated NAZI crockery,- compared to rest of the shortchanged Third Reich. All parties understood they were vital and primary functionaries of the most productive (operation Monsun)offensives into the Pacific as an extension of Nazi and Axis might. Of the good brave Nazis on the U-boot in question, 23 survived as did the Kapitänleutnant Pich, who was a POW until 1947 and died at age 82 in 1997.
