U-48: The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War HC25 ' Everything has become so

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U-48: The Most Successful U-Boat of the Second World War HC25 ' Everything has become soFollowing the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Germany was not permitted to build or operate submarines. However, clandestine training took place on Finnish and Spanish submarines and U boats were still built to German designs in Dutch yards. At the outset of the Second World War, Admiral Karl Dnitz argued for a 300 strong U boat fleet, since his force of fifty seven assorted U boats could not materially affect British seaborne trade on