Assembled Interrogations of Matrosengefreiter Gerd Horn and Maschinengefreiter Werner Rast

Prisoner UO-926/41S was Matrosengefreiter Gerd Horn and UN-10842/41T was Maschinengefreiter Werner Rast. These interrogations were conducted at the Joint Interrogation Center at Fort Hunt, Virginia by Navy intelligence officers.

 

 
U-595
  
 
Assembled Interrogations of: 1. UO-926/41S
  2. UN-10842/41T
 
     
 
from Dec. 28, 1942 to Jan. 3, 1943
  
     
 
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A.A. Guns on "595" 12
Becker, Lieut, Com. 32
Blohm& Voss yards 26
Blotting-out device 14-15
Bombing of cities 1-2
Brest - Submarines Squadrons stationed at 1-19-20
Bülow, Capt. Lt. von 1-19
Cables - defects in "595" electric 1-5-6-7-11
Concentration camps 27
Crews of Submarines - where from 1-24
Directional receiver 15
Funkmelde Beobachtung 23
Gas, not likely to be used 25
Going - Commander 26
Hamburg, harbor 26
Hauptmann, Lieut. Com. 31
Horstig, von - mental condition 6
Lorient - Squadrons there 1
MG 34, on "595" 13
"Mein Kampf", German attitude 27
Morale, submarine crews 25
Morale, in Germany 27-28
Mortar, use of 83 cm 25-26
Oran, in harbor of 10
Pill-thrower (Q.C. Neutralizer) 7-22-23
Priehn, ship commanded by 30
Raeder, Admiral 27
Rollmann, Capt. 31
SS New York at Kiel 24
SS Troops - Fear of in army 28
St. Nazaire - Squadrons there 1
Submarine "595", History of 1
        (1) Launching 1
        (2) Commissioning 2
        (3) As training vessel 3-15
        (4) Cables burned through 3-5
        (5) Quaet-Faslem 4
        (6) "Sea Cows", use of 4
        (7) Destroyer sunk by "595" 4
        (8) "595" damaged 6
        (9) Sinking of 12
 
 
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Tables of Contents (Cont'd.)
  
     
 
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Submarines, list of 28 ff.
Submarine "755" 20
        (1) Construction of 24
        (2) Officers commanding 20
        (3) Launched 20
        (4) Commissioned 20
        (5) Conning Tower Insignia 21
   
Submerging in different waters 8-9
Suchergeraetemfaenger 14
Supply ship, for submarines 22
        (1) Submarine type 22
        (2) Described 22
   
Torpedo, stuck in tube of "595" 16-17
Torpedoes, employed by submarines 21-22
        (1) Weight of 17-21
        (2) Length of 22
   
Transport, attacked by "595" 10
Training ships 28
U-boats - List of numbers 28-32
Vogel, Lieut. (Supply ship of) 30
 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
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U-595
  
     
  Interrogation of  
      1. UO-926/41S  
      2. UN-10842/41T  
     
  From December 28, 1942 to January 3, 1943 (inclusive).  
     
 
Q. Tell me, what submarine squadrons are stationed at Brest?
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1. The ninth is there.
   
2. And the first, too.
   
Q. You mean the first and ninth are both in Brest?
   
1. Yes, sir.
   
Q. Who is the Commander of the first?
   
1. Let's see, now.
   
2. Von Bülow, wasn't it?
   
1. Yes, that's right, Captain Leutnant von Bülow.
   
Q. What squadrons are there in Lorient?
   
1. The second and seventh.
   
Q. Do you know the names of their commanders?
   
1. No, I don't.
   
2. I don't either.
   
Q. What is at St. Nazaire?
   
1. I know that the third is there, for I had a friend who was transferred there. I don't know anything about the others.
   
Q. What is the reconstitution program in Germany after the bombing attacks? Are there many new homes built?
   
1. I would like to really tell you about that. As you probably have noticed our submarine crews come mostly from Central Germany, the Rhineland and Saxony. When those boys go on furlough, they never go home. Do you know why? Because of air attacks and the misery there. The last time I went home, I didn't recognize the place; homes gone here, there, and everywhere.
 
     
 
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      2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
1. (cont'd.) And every family has some loved one who is dead, missing, or who is a prisoner of war.
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Q. Do they rebuild the houses that are demolished?
   
1. Well, if they can be repaired, yes, but mostly they can't and so they are torn down immediately. There is no material available for civilian construction; only military buildings are constructed.
   
Q. What happens to the people that are bombed out?
   
1. They are transplanted into other sections of Germany, for instance, coal miners from the Ruhr district to the coal mine regions of Silesia.
   
Continuation of Interrogation                                                                       December 29, 1942.
   
Q. Do you recall when the keel of the "595" was laid?
   
2. The period of construction varies all the time. Sometimes it takes 11 months, sometimes 12, sometimes 10. There really is no standard time set for the construction.
   
Q. Then, you don't know when the keel was laid?
   
2. No, we don't know that.
   
Q. But, you know when the vessel was launched?
   
2. That was on the 10th or 12th of September. It must have been within those three days.
   
1. Yes, on the 10th, 11th, or 12th.
   
Q. 1941?
   
1. Yes, 1941.
   
Q. And when was the submarine commissioned?
   
2. On the 6th of November.
   
Q. Did this submarine serve as a training vessel for a short period?
 
     
 
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      2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
1. Yes, for four months.
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Q. What was the matter with that boat?
   
1. I don't know.
   
2. That was an order. An order was passed down by higher authority that the vessel was to be stripped and to be utilized as a training vessel.
   
Q. YOu say that it was utilized in that capacity for 4 months?
   
2. Yes.
   
Q. Someone told me that there was something wrong with the electrical cables, or with some other electrical installation.
   
2. I could not even tell you. To my knowledge, the E-machines were in perfect operating condition.
   
1. Wait a second, could it have been that ....
   
Q. Yes. I was under the impression that she had been used for that purpose, because something was wrong with the electrical installations. For that reason she had to be temporarily removed from combat operations.
   
2. No.
   
1. If such a serious mistake is discovered within a submarine, she will never be used for front line duty.
   
Q. I thought that, perhaps, she might have been repaired.
   
2. On the second trip, all the electrical cables burned through.
   
Q. When you departed from Kristiansand, where there any other submarines with you?
   
2. Just one.
   
Q. Which one?
   
2. It was a large boat. I don't recall what her number was.
 
     
 
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  2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
Q. Was that one of the "sea cows"?
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1. Yes.
   
2. It was a supply ship.
   
1. A vessel of 1600 tons.
   
Q. Do you know the number of this supply vessel?
   
1. No, I don't.
   
Q. With whom did you go through your tactical exercises?
   
1. With whom?
   
Q. Yes, who was the captain?
   
1. The commandant?
   
Q. Yes.
   
2. With our original commandant - Quaet-Faslem. He was our commander since October. In other words, we arrived in Hamburg in October, and from there on we knew who our commander was.
   
Q. Which route was your boat to take?
   
1. On our second trip?
   
Q. Yes
   
2. It was within the North and Middle Atlantic. Yes, it was within that area, but I cannot give you the exact locations.
   
Q. You did sink one boat on your second trip?
   
2. No, we did not sink any vessels at all.
   
Q. None at all?
   
2. On the first trip we sank a destroyer, according to statements by our officers and the Lieutenant (sr. gr.), and on the third trip we sank a transport vessel. But we netted nothing on the second trip.
   
Q. Did you ever have to return to your base, because there was something
 
     
 
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      2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
Q. (Cont'd.) wrong with your submarine?
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1. Yes, on the second trip.
   
2. On the second trip we went through this trouble with the cables. They burned through.
   
Q. When was that? On which day?
   
2. I don't recall.
   
Q. Well, give me an approximate date.
   
2. It happened very soon after we departed on our second trip.
   
Q. When did you depart?
   
2. On the 31st of October. We contacted the convoy approximately on the -
   
Q. 7th?
   
2. Yes, approximately. When did we make contact? We made contact on the 7th, and you fellows operated right next to us. On the 7th or 8th we approached the enemy.
   
1. No, that was 10 days prior to that. It was on the 27 or 28th of October.
   
Q. October?
   
2. No, not October. It was in September. On the 27th or 28th of September
   
Q. On the 27th of September?
   
2. I cannot give you the exact date, but it was around that time.
   
Q. That's all right. Of course, I shall check all these dates and testimonies to convince myself of their veracity. Were you attacked by an airplane on your second trip?
 
     
 
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      1. UO-926/41S  
      2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
2. There was an attack under water, and then a destroyer dropped depth charges, while the transport escaped under full steam.
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Q. So it was a destroyer which intercepted you?
   
2. There were several - eight altogether, in addition to three corvettes and the troop transport. We could not catch the troop transport, because she escaped by reaching the speed of 25 sea miles. So we called off our attack and returned to our base.
   
Q. That was on the 29th of September?
   
1. On the 10th of September.
   
2. You say it was on the 29th of September?
   
Q. Yes.
   
2. Well, if that was on the 29th, then the damage on the cables occurred on the 30th. Yes, the damage occurred one day after the attack. I think it was then or early on the 31st.
   
Q. Do you think that this damage was caused by the depth charges?
   
2. I would not say by the depth charges. There must have been some kind of damage within the cable system, allowing salt water to find its way to them. That was close to the central station, and the short circuit which was thus touched off burned all the cable through.
   
Q. I guess von Horstig is a little off the beam.
   
1. I suppose he is just a little too young.
   
2. In a way you are right. He is a little careless. But why did you bring that up?
   
Q. He wanted to commit suicide. He thought that he was responsible for the damage which befell the submarine. He was the watch officer at the time.
 
     
 
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      2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
2. No, he was not the watch officer at the time.
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1. No, he wasn't.
   
Q. Anyway, he tried to commit suicide.
   
2. How?
   
Q. I think he wanted to hang himself.
   
1. I know why. The "old man" would have subjected him to a court-martial, if he had returned.
   
Q. Is that right?
   
1. The whole crew talked about it. We were all at our stations, ready to leave port on the 31st of October, while he was running around on the pier like a mad-man. All the arsenals and the ordnance depots had been closed, so he tried to get all that stuff from one of the other submarines. He had forgotten to get one of our most vital defensive weapons.
   
Q. What was that, the anti-aircraft defense?
   
1. No a device which operates from the boat. The pill-thrower (Q.C. Neutralizer).
   
Q. Oh, the pill-thrower (Q.C. Neutralizer).
   
1. Yes he had forgotten the ammunition for that.
   
Q. My goodness!
   
1. The squadron commander was already poised in our boat and everything was ready. The "old man" was just waiting for the accomplishment of this task so that he could make his report.
   
Q. So you did not have any pills.
   
2. No.
   
1. But it so happened that we did not need any of them on this trip.
   
2. No.
 
     
 
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      2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
1. But we were submerged in a depth of 150 meters, the sound could not be picked up above the surface. In this case the airplanes could not pick up the sound.
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Q. I guess not.
   
1. The quality of the water makes the difference. If in the Atlantic a depth charge explodes three-tenths of the way down, above the boat, everything trembles like Hell, and you think that the hulk of the boat is about to collapse. In the Mediterranean, the effect is very much diminished, due to the large percentage of salt this water contains and which plays an important part with regards to the protection of the boat.
   
2. I suppose you are not familiar with this particular phase.
   
Q. No.
   
1. For the very same reason, you cannot hear any noises. When we torpedo a vessel, which might be 2,000 meters away, we immediately submerge to a certain depth, so that the destroyers cannot see us.
   
Q. I understand that different layers of water show different degrees of density and concentration.
   
1. No, that is not quite correct. The water in the Mediterranean forms a compact mass of its own, and the water in the Atlantic does likewise. The depth has actually no bearing on the density. If a boat in the Mediterranean submerges to a depth of 30 meters, it can be seen by a destroyer just as well as if it would be submerged in the Atlantic at a depth of 150 meters. However, if a destroyer cruises on the surface of the Mediterranean and the submarine is submerged at a depth of 30 meters, the destroyer can pick up the sound a little better, because the noises penetrate to the surface at a much greater speed, the fact for
 
     
 
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      1. UO-926/41S  
      2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
1. (cont'd.) which is based on the principle of the sound waves. It is the same principle which is applied to the radio. But it does not make to much difference, and if the submarine has submerged to a greater depth it can hardly be heard on the surface, because the density of the water is so enormous in the Mediterranean, and likewise, the concentration of salt, that it is extremely difficult to pick up any sound.
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Q. In the Pacific, extending beyond the west coast of the United States, there are certain layers within the water, into which a submarine can penetrate and float within this layer, as if she were floating on air. Is this same condition prevalent in the Atlantic.
   
1. No, that does not exist in the Atlantic.
   
Q. I just heard about it. Do you recall when you passed through the Straits of Gibraltar? Can you give me the approximate date?
   
2. I could not tell you.
   
1. I don't recall that either. It may have been a week later, but I could not state the exact date.
   
Q. In this case it should be on the 6th or 7th of November.
   
2. Since we departed on the 31st of October, it is extremely possible that it was on the 6th or 7th of November.
   
1. I was questioned downstairs here about this date, and I told them also that it was about a week later.
   
2. Yes, on the 6th, 7th, or 8th.
   
Q. Did you cruise very close to the African coast or more towards the middle of the Mediterranean?
   
2. I could not tell you that either.
 
     
 
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  2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
Q. Well, of course, you were all the ways down in the submarine with the machines. Did you enter the port of Oran?
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2. I don't know that either.
   
1. Neither do I, but I presume that we did.
   
2. The officers said that we had been in the harbor.
   
Q. Where you attacked in the Bay of Biscay?
   
2. No, we were never attacked.
   
Q. Do you recall where you launched your attack, during this last trip of yours?
   
1. That was before Oran.
   
2. That was before Oran? I was under the impression that it was between Oran and Algiers.
   
1. I can't say for sure, where it was. It was not in the harbor of Oran, but out in the Mediterranean.
   
Q. I suppose it was in the vicinity of Oran - north of Oran?
   
2. Yes, north of Oran, but I cannot give you the exact location.
   
Q. When you were in this neighborhood, did you know of any submarines that might have been nearby?
   
1. They maintain radio communications with each other, but it is possible that they are far away from each other.
   
Q. When you went on your second trip, did you attack this transport one day before you experienced this interruption of your cables? The 26th was mentioned, and then you mentioned the 29th. Could it have been between those dates - on the 28th?
 
     
 
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  1. UO-926/41S  
  2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
2. One day after the attack on the transport, the cable was disrupted. At noon we attacked a transport and 5 o'clock the next morning the cable burned through
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Q. You said that you had to return on the 27th, because the cable was disrupted. In that case the attack should have taken place on the 26th. Or perhaps it was on the 28th?
   
2. I couldn't tell you for sure, when the attack was launched.
   
Q. What kind of a vessel was the one which you attacked on your last trip?
   
2. You mean the troop transport?
   
Q. Yes, you sank one didn't you?
   
2. No. We didn't sink any.
   
Q. I mean on the third trip - the last one.
   
2. Oh yes, on the third trip. That was a large troop transport, but I believe it was empty.
   
Q. Fine, that checks, too. Why did you first venture on the water at 9 o'clock in the morning? Could you see that there was something wrong with your apparatus, or whatever it was?
   
2. No. do you mean the machines?
   
Q. Yes. Was there anything wrong that caused you to surface?
   
1. That was up to the commandant. That was his decision.
   
Q. After this attack had been launched upon you, what was the first damage which became most apparent? Did the aft quarters cave in first, or was there damage to the rudder?
   
2. When we wanted to submerge, the depth control rudder was out of control.
   
1. Only the lateral rudders had been damaged during the first attack. So we went downstairs, but we could not accomplish anything through manual
 
     
 
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  1. UO-926/41S  
  2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
1. (Cont'd) operations, either. The depth control rudder could also be operated by hand. Subsequently the fuses of the machine were replaced and the depth control rudder started to function again. Then the order came through: "Emerge". Then we picked up the sound of the airplanes
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Q. During the second attack, water penetrated into the stern chamber?
   
2. Yes, I understand that there was a penetration of water into the stern chamber, but whatever actually happened, I would not know for sure.
   
1. I did not see any water at all, and I was in the boat all the time.
   
Q. Now you can tell me something. How many airplanes did you shoot down?
   
1. I did not shoot down any.
   
Q. I am referring to the entire crew. I don't care whether you shot them or somebody else. Did anyone on your submarine shoot down any?
   
1. The "old man" said that we shot down two airplanes. But I was on watch as A.A. gunner, and I should know how many we shot down.
   
Q. And you think that you didn't shoot down any at all?
   
1. They were burning like wildfire - motors and everything, and they had to discontinue the attack, but I did not see any of them fall into the sea. I don't believe, however, that they returned to their base. After all, we are not so bad.
   
Q. What type of A.A. guns do you have?
   
1. 2 cm. and 3.7 cm.
   
Q. Don't you have any of those 8.8 cm guns on your submarine?
   
1. No, that is not a ship's gun at all.
   
Q. Yes, I know.
   
1. They might have been on larger vessels.
 
     
 
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U-595.
  
     
 
Q. The gun used by the first watch is only an antiaircraft gun?
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1. On submarines there are only 3.7. In other words, caliber 3.7 and 2 cm., besides the machine guns.
   
Q. What are those, heavy or light machine guns?
   
1. They are light machine guns, but they can be used as heavy ones. They are air-cooled and shoot at the same rate of fire like heavy machine guns.
   
Q. Is that the MG 34?
   
1. Yes, it is.
   
Q. How many of those MGs do you carry with you?
   
1. Those of the 34 type?
   
Q. Yes.
   
1. Four.
   
Q. They are kept in the conning tower?
   
1. Yes.
   
Q. After you had shot down those two attacking planes, were you attacked again?
   
1. More and more planes attacked. We were attacked at great length. Even on land they kept shooting until we disappeared in the brush.
   
Q. Is that right?
   
1. They even shot at us when we were on land.
   
Q. The airplanes?
   
1. Yes.
   
Q. And what about the destroyers?
   
1. The destroyers fired at us too, while we were on the water and after we had landed.
   
Q. Then you fellows were fortunate indeed that there were no casualties among you.
 
     
 
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  2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
1. You have no idea how those planes fired at us. After all, we don't have so much ammunition for anti-aircraft defense on board. For that reason we have to conserve ammunition. So we permitted the airplanes to come very close and then we cut loose. Consequently they turned tail, dropping the depth charges, which they had on board, and beat a hasty retreat. Those machines dive from a height of 3,000 meters down to 200 meters, and then they cut loose with machine guns. The entire conning tower was punctured. I was very much surprised that I was not struck by a bullet. The water splashed into the air from the impact. After the attack they circled above us and shot with their machine guns from their rear turret. Besides they dropped some more bombs and engaged in similar tricks. I really was fortunate.
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Q. Perhaps there was an angel who protected you.
   
1. All the little girls are my guardian angles.
   
Q. Is that the device by the name of "Fu. M.B. Gerät", which you told me about last night - the (Suchgeraetemfaenger) searching device receiver?
   
2. Yes. If an airplane approaches, we can hear it. It receives the beams, and then there is an apparatus, in a long box, through which we can hear, whenever an airplane is near, or a destroyer. How do you call that?
   
Q. Those devices are employed on all the submarines?
   
2. Yes, most of the submarines have them.
   
Q. And that device which you had was the receiver?
   
2. Yes.
   
Q. Did you have a blotting-out device, too?
   
2. A blotting-out device? No.
   
Q. Isn't that the device which blots out all the beams from airplanes?
 
     
 
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  2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
1. There was a device, an under-water device, which blot out beams from destroyers searching device. It blots out the beams which a destroyer sends out.
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2. Yes, but not those from airplanes.
   
Q. What about the directional receiver?
   
2. The auxiliary device? That is already old. It can be raised out of the boat like a periscope, and if a large vessel is in the vicinity, it can be employed to intercept radio messages.
   
Q. Did you have that on all the boats?
   
2. On every boat - on many boats.
   
Q. You don't know, I don't suppose, on how many kilocycles one of those devices operates? I was under the impression that something was wrong on your submarine, before you started, that the electrical installations had somehow been damaged, which was the cause of the cable disruption during your second trip.
   
2. I don't know a thing about that. I can only tell you that the cable served as a connecting link between the battery and the E-machine.
   
Q. But you know that for four months the boat served as a training craft.
   
2. In January, February, March and April. On the first of May we departed.
   
Q. Is the 8th Flotilla a flotilla school?
   
1. That I could not tell you.
   
2. The submarine was supposed to be a unit of a harbor flotilla in times of peace.
   
Q. In times of peace?
 
     
 
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  2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
2. Yes, I suppose in times of peace only. But I have no knowledge of its actual mission during times of war.
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Q. Were you on the high seas between the 30th of July and the 4th of August?
   
2. ..... July was on the 23 of July until the - did you say the 4th of August?
   
Q. Yes, that was on your first trip.
   
2. That was later. That was on the 14th of August. Yes, until the 15th of August.
   
Q. Was that the date of your first trip?
   
2. Yes.
   
Q. From the 23rd of July to the 15th of August?
   
2. Yes.
   
Q. Can you recall whether during the period of the 6th to the 9th of August you participated in a wolfpack attack together with the U-210 and the U-397?
   
2. I wouldn't know.
   
Q. Were you together in one pack with Lengerson, and then with Zuhren?
   
2. I really shouldn't tell. I have heard of those names before, but I don't know anything about any attack.
   
Q. Here is something else I wanted to ask you. Do you recall that a torpedo was stuck in a tube and that you had to return to Brest for that reason?
   
2. Yes, that was during the first cruise.
   
Q. That torpedo was stuck in the tube and you could not remove it?
   
2. Yes. It did not leave the tube, and we could not pull it out, either.
   
Q. Isn't that dangerous, if you try to pull one of those torpedoes out?
   
2. Yes. This particular torpedo did not emerge from the tube at all. it
 
     
 
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  1. UO-926/41S  
  2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
2. (Cont'd.) was still inside the tube, just as it had been loaded, with the leaking cap closed. It was stuck right in the front end of the tube.
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Q. And it could not be removed?
   
2. We could not pull it back and we could not launch it.
   
Q. And that was on your first cruise?
   
2. Yes.
   
Q. Was there no fear prevalent among you that the torpedo might explode in the tube?
   
2. You just don't think about that. But it was quite possible.
   
Q. If that should happen, there would be nothing left of the submarine except shreds. My goodness! What difficult work all that is. I'd rather not have anything to do with that, and stick to soldiering.
   
1. It is already a tough job to load one of those torpedoes into the tube because they weigh almost 30 Zentner (3,000 German lbs.)
   
2. Yes, 30 Zentner.
   
Q. And you don't recall whether you were with the others between the 6th and 9th of August.
   
2. I know that several submarines participated in this attack on the convoy, but I don't know which ones.
   
Q. You did not approach the same convoy?
   
2. I could not even say for sure whether the others you mentioned were there, but submarines were there.
   
Q. Did you attack one of the destroyers with 3 torpedoes?
   
2. The first destroyer attacked in unison with the corvettes, and we launched 2 torpedoes against her. She was about 800 meters away. When she came 200 meters closer, we recognized her as a destroyer. When she passed by she was enveloped with smoke. But I could not say for sure whether only
 
     
 
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  1. UO-926/41S  
  2. UN-10842/41T  
 
U-595.
  
     
 
2. (Cont'd.) one or both of the torpedoes hit her. We fired the third at another vessel.
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Q. Here is another question, and then we shall come to a close. Which other boats departed with you from Kiel? Do you recall that?
   
2. That was the supply ship.