Saboutage was a very considerable RL factor, especially when it became obvious that Germany was losing the war. The U-Boats operating from French and Norwegian bases were maintained by a mixture of German and foreign labour. Native, skilled, German dockyard workers were in short supply as most of them had been drafted into the army . No U-bootsmann is going to saboutage his own boat but a crafty Frenchie might stick some bolts in the diesel piston-heads. Also, 'slave labour' was increasingly used as the war went on for the original manufacture of the boats themselve and the complex parts that went to make them up. The boat may have been saboutaged even before it was delivered!
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