The Bizarre Affair of U-570

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Oskar Heinz Kusch (6 April 1918 - 12 May 1944) was a German naval officer and U-boat commander in World War II who was executed for comments critical of the Nazi state.
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@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

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@yarrlegap6940 5 месяцев назад

excellent video ... but to be fair to u570 ... justice would have been to go to the bottom of the ocean where they belonged. ... instead they received mercy through their commander's mental fault ...

@matthewknight4090 5 месяцев назад

My Dad, a naval officer in WW2, was given four sherry glasses from the wardroom of U 570 as a prize. I still have three of them.

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Extremely cool and thank you to him for his service!

@colinreece3452 Месяц назад

Wow what a prize.

@JasonMcCord-qk3yb 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for telling the whole story of U570! I always thought that boat should have been kept as a museum piece, but during the war, no one was looking at things that way. Britain was fighting for her very survival! It is more fitting that she ended up as a wreck, rather than to be broken up for razor blades….

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

@beltigussin81 5 месяцев назад

Why was the capture of an intact German submarine broadcast in the newspapers. That should have been top secret and the crew sequestered.

@blowingfree6928 5 месяцев назад

There would have been no point. The German crew radioed their situation to the German naval high-command, destroyed their radio, smashed their Enigma machine, and dumped its parts overboard along with the boat's secret papers. Admiral Dönitz later noted in his war diary that he ordered U-boats in the area to go to U-570's assistance after receiving this report; U-82 responded, but RAF air patrols prevented U-82 from reaching U-570.

@joechang8696 5 месяцев назад

Press idiots let out that the US had advance knowledge of midway, and that Japanese were setting their depth charge too shallow in relation to sonar depth readings. Of course, the Japanese should have deduced something from the fact that all three available us carriers were on station to meet them

@beltigussin81 5 месяцев назад

@@joechang8696 That not press idiots. It's the naval command that don't know how to guard their secrets.

@vapormissile 5 месяцев назад

Loose lips @@ozmaniac101

@richs7362 5 месяцев назад

And why was the Hudson trying to depth charge it?

@markpaul-ym5wg 5 месяцев назад

Thanks HIDDEN HISTORY.This is one of the wildest stories of WW2.

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Thank you Mark!

@markpaul-ym5wg 5 месяцев назад

@HiddenHistoryYT You are always welcome HIDDEN HISTORY.

@nickdanger3802 5 месяцев назад

On 1 February 1942, the Enigma messages began to be encoded using a new Enigma version that had been brought into use. The previous 3-rotor Enigma model had been modified with the old reflector replaced by a thin rotor and a new thin reflector.

@HotTacticalBoyfriendOfficial 5 месяцев назад

Thanks Dad!

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

@RickaramaTrama-lc1ys 5 месяцев назад

What a great story of The World War II German Navy Sub U570 and your narration was excellent and easy to follow. I was happy to subscribe and look forward to other videos in your line up. Thanks for all your work to bring these stories to us.

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Greatly appreciate it! Thanks for watching and have a fantastic week :)

@Idahoguy10157 5 месяцев назад

The British wouldn’t have spares for a German submarine. Which explains it’s short British service. That it was commissioned into the Royal Navy is remarkable. I’m sure American submariner officers and naval engineers got a good examination of U-570. In particular the superiority of German optics

@user-uz8bu5np9f 5 месяцев назад

Yes they did indeed. e.g. they found out, that the U-boats are able to dive more than 170 meters and therefore adapted the water depth charges to these depths.

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

@lightbox617 5 месяцев назад

As a kid living near Chicago, I used to go to the Museum of Science and Industry to see the U505

@johnnyreno7200 5 месяцев назад

I've been there. It's awesome

@thomasrobinson182 5 месяцев назад

Me too. And the coal mine.

@sdcoinshooter 5 месяцев назад

It’s amazing isn’t it? I can’t believe (very brave) men went in to battle in that thing. I got claustrophobic walking through it on dry land.

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

It is very cool! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@deftone1 5 месяцев назад

Another fascinating story from WWII that I’ve never heard of. Very well told, subbed.

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Greatly appreciate it :)

@jean-francoislemieux5509 5 месяцев назад

thanks for this unknown gem of ww2 history!

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b 5 месяцев назад

Boy, that had a whole bunch of twist and turns! Thanks for the stories!

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching and have a great weekend :)

@MrShenyang1234 5 месяцев назад

The Commander should have been held responsible for everything that happened to U-570. The Junior Officers had no power to control those events.

@andyc750 5 месяцев назад

there is an awful lot of this story that has been missed out and some other stuff is incorrect

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

@somethingelse4878 5 месяцев назад

I live a few miles from grizedale hall and wish id knew about it being a pow camp years ago

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Very cool!

@rorymacintosh6691 5 месяцев назад

Great story, thanks!

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Greatly appreciate you watching and have a fantastic week :)

@joedaman8436 5 месяцев назад

Amazing story, many thanks for this video 👍

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Greatly appreciate you watching and have a fantastic week :)

@carrickrichards2457 Месяц назад

Several enigma were captured by the allies. The Poles had a diplomatic enigma machine. German Naval enigma were captured in 1939 (Spy trawler) and 1941 (U-559) by the Royal Navy. U-570 destroyed it's enigma but was otherwise salvaged intact. US Navy captured U-505 (Type IX) in 1944.

@HiddenHistoryYT Месяц назад

Appreciate you watching and have a great weekend :)

@realwealthproperties5671 5 месяцев назад

You left out the part about Matthew McConaughey, being the hero that captured the sub!

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

lol Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@jamesdeen3011 5 месяцев назад

This was the beginning of the end for Atlantic War as the enigma machine was deciferd. Happy New Year everyone!

@blowingfree6928 5 месяцев назад

Not so, the crew of U570 dumped their enigma machine overboard, along with all signals and code books etc. You are thinking of the action of HMS Bulldog who captured U110 in 1941 along with an enigma machine and the code books. Capturing the enigma machine was pivotal but it only helped as the enigma rotors and codes were changed frequently and Bletchley Park often could not decode German naval transmissions in time to be of any use. The Battle of the Atlantic dragged on for another 4 years almost.

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

@Tucker_George 5 месяцев назад

Didnt learn this in social studies...

@neilmeadows8641 5 месяцев назад

For more on U-570, I recommend HM U-Boat by John Drummond 1958. Enthralling.

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

I’ll how to check that out! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@DBEdwards 5 месяцев назад

Great film footage on the sub

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@CharlieEverton-mv7yq 5 месяцев назад

It is perhaps not harsh to describe you're portrait of the U boat captain as unflattering and his fellow imprisoned officer s were well aware that the enemy should never be allowed to capture such a vessel,The consequences could be catastrophic and in this case via the enigma machine surely we're,

@EchoesofWarYT 5 месяцев назад

very cool

@davidponseigo8811 5 месяцев назад

My uncle who was Admiral George McFadden O'Rear who commanded the USS Arkansas at the battle of Iwo Jima commanded on of the first US submarines and my great great uncle was Lt. Richard Sauffley commanded on the first submarines and was one of the original naval pilots and was the first naval pilot ever fired at in combat at the battle of Veracruz . Pensacola Naval Air Station is named Sauffley Field in his honor.

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Incredible! Thank you to him for his service!

@somethingelse4878 5 месяцев назад

Very interesting local history Barrow wow that's where we make our subs today prob go to barrow this summer

@mirandela777 5 месяцев назад

You can have the best weapon system out there, if it is manned by cowards and muppets with ZERO experience, will always get defeated.

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

@johndavenport7281 5 месяцев назад

There are several comments about Enigma machine capture here which I find confusing. As far as I am aware British sailors from HMS Bulldog captured the first naval Enigma machine from U-110 in the North Atlantic in May 1941, seven months before the United States entered the war and three years before the US Navy captured U-505 and its Enigma machine. Are people connecting the capture of the U-570 submarine with the fictional U-571 Holywood film that was only loosely based on occurences during WW2?

@aquariandawn4750 Месяц назад

I have no difficulty believing the general public perceives movies to be the same as listening in history class.

@BA-gn3qb 5 месяцев назад

What happened to the code books and enigma machine?

@blowingfree6928 5 месяцев назад

The crew broke them up and tossed them overboard.

@Idahoguy10157 5 месяцев назад

Seaworthy and Battle worthy? Really?! Then British censors allowed the capture to be advertised?! I’m not tracking…

@dovetonsturdee7033 5 месяцев назад

She did carry out two RN patrols after being repaired and her capabilities thoroughly examined. She was decommissioned in June, 1943, and, after further depth charge testing, in March 1944 she was wrecked whilst being towed to a scrapyard on the Clyde.

@rogerrendzak8055 3 месяца назад

Just cause the captain, was in a mental institution, doesn't mean he was incapable of running, a submarine. Mental health, is one thing. Common sense is another. Knowing you have zero chance hor survival, against all odds, and dying for zero reason, what's the point?? I'd give up too, before uselessly, losing my life.

@benwilson6145 5 месяцев назад

Pronounced 'I lay'

@CharlieEverton-mv7yq 5 месяцев назад

War is indeed a ruthless affair and allowed an opinion i would suggest that as you explained details this U boat Captain should surely have scuttled the vessel whatever the loss of life, i say this because if he had he would have prevented the death s of thousands ofGerman sailors and civilians as the English wouldn't have been able to compromise the naval Enigma to the extent they eventually did,

@cliffontheroad 5 месяцев назад

This could be 100% accurate but I personally would not use it for anything more than a good tale based on a real event. In fairness, history is written by the victors. There is one story I believe is true which was not widely published, that being 3 days before a planned military action, the US high command approved a sub torpedoing A Japanese ship instead of saying "hang back and just observe." (My capital A was intended here.) The sub got sunk. The high command figured some action would mask that the US had plans (to attack the convey or major shipping lane.) Needless loss of life.

@HowlinWilf13 5 месяцев назад

I do enjoy a good war story!

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@user-kk7zp2dm5e 5 месяцев назад

I do believe the whole crew did the right thing, better to live than to die. They were sick, and did not have any experience. So yes, give up and live. Better than to die.

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@donholmes3267 5 месяцев назад

Oscar for Matthew MConathey !

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

lol thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@HiddenHistoryPlaysYT 5 месяцев назад

🔥

@msau9747 5 месяцев назад

I wonder what happened to the awful captain

@ianhandforth5672 5 месяцев назад

why did they publish the capture,,you are giving the whole point of catching the sub and codebook away

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

@loganpollock1689 5 месяцев назад

A Jonah for sure!!!

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@user-xm4ep1rl1j 5 месяцев назад

"sunken" ???

@markrainford1219 5 месяцев назад

"luckily most of the.303 bullets missed". Who's side you on pal?

@shirleyle3931 5 месяцев назад

If you've never been Seasick.... Its Miserable.

@johndavenport7281 5 месяцев назад

Seasickness affects you in several stages: 1) you feel nauseous 2) you vomit repeatedly 3) you start to worry that you are going to die 4) you become convinced that you are going to die then worst of all 5) you start to worry that you aren't going to die and the suffering will continue. Spike Milligan said that there was only one certain cure for seasickness which is to sit underneath a tree!

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

@petesmusic6648 5 месяцев назад

As a POW I’d have chased my old crazy superiors , what happened , happened , end of .

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Yep! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@antoniogabrieldahdah1274 5 месяцев назад

Lástima el idioma. Por eso no lo veo

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Ahh unfortunate!

@thatguy990 5 месяцев назад

👍👍

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

@rabbi120348 5 месяцев назад

"All your seasick sailors they are rowing home Your empty-handed army is all going home..." Bob Dylan. "It's All Over Now Baby Blue"

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@Jahwobbly 5 месяцев назад

And no mention of Ultra. Newer versions of this story should address the subject.

@markfryer9880 5 месяцев назад

Well he did mention the Enigma machine, rotors and code books.

@lievenmoelants 5 месяцев назад

Kangaroo court by these fine German specimens.

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

@lowandslow3939 5 месяцев назад

So, was the enigma machine captured?

@donholmes3267 5 месяцев назад

Of course it captured and was very useful the rest of the war !

@dovetonsturdee7033 5 месяцев назад

No. It, and the codes, were destroyed before surface ships arrived. The capture could not be concealed, but her captain had radioed his HQ that all confidential documents and equipment had been disposed of.

@lowandslow3939 5 месяцев назад

@@donholmes3267 The video did not state that it was or was not captured during this incident. We did get a few, but not at this time.

@lowandslow3939 5 месяцев назад

@@dovetonsturdee7033 Thank you.

@truthandfreedom885 5 месяцев назад

Did U570 dink any axis ships as a British Submarine

@blowingfree6928 5 месяцев назад

No, she carried out three patrols as HMS Graph, but she was due to be broken up due to there being no spares, but she ran aground.

@scottessery100 5 месяцев назад

sadly no en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Graph

@adamfalkenstrom5609 4 месяца назад

Wouldnt it be risky to put a English flag on a German Uboat and sail around? Feels like the first aircraft would have bombed it?

@kennethbransford820 5 месяцев назад

==== Can you blame them wanting to live? ====

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Appreciate you watching and have a great week :)

@diannegooding8733 5 месяцев назад

Surely Tom Cruise was involved somehow?

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

lol. Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@DaveSCameron 5 месяцев назад

That sounds dreadful! 😂

@DaveSCameron 5 месяцев назад

I'm sure I've read of this case previously...

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Oh ya 😂

@joe18750 5 месяцев назад

What happened to the Enigma?

@godsowndrunk1118 2 месяца назад

U-570 should have returned to base immediately once the hydrophones malfunctioned...or even sooner because of the engine troubles.

@HiddenHistoryYT 2 месяца назад

Agreed! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@zillsburyy1 5 месяцев назад

they should have set off the demolition charges during scuttling

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@tedsmith6137 5 месяцев назад

What has Oskar Heinz Kusch got to do with the story of U570?

@andyc750 5 месяцев назад

not exactly completely accurate and a lot of missing relevant info as well, worth people reading up on the complete story

@mikebellis5713 5 месяцев назад

I tried to watch a Hollywood movie about U570. The British had nothing to do with this, only Americans 😂😂

@beowulf1312 5 месяцев назад

Typical. The Americans do themselves a disservice by writing out the contributions of their allies even to the present day.

@Normandy1944 5 месяцев назад

@@beowulf1312 I ask you phrase that as liberal minded Hollywood do themselves a disservice. Most Americans like myself, especially history minded, would want the truth brought forth. Just as in The Great Escape, where the Americans weren't as involved as portrayed and should had been written out later as they were deployed to other stalags months before the escape.

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Ya it’s terrible 😂

@bothewolf3466 5 месяцев назад

Like #666. Woooo!

@robertborglund5783 5 месяцев назад

I got a picture of it manned by US Sailors going through Cape Cod Canal

@HiddenHistoryYT 5 месяцев назад

Very cool! Thanks for watching and have a great week :)

@hiddenfromhistory100 5 месяцев назад

It doesn't make sense that the Brits publicized they had captured the sub, since the Germans would then know they had also captured an enigma machine and they'd change the codes.

@benwilson6145 5 месяцев назад

The crew had many hours to dispose on the Enigma machine. No Enigma was captured.