semi-submersible Versuch Schnellboot (Experimental torpedo Boat) VS.5 armed with two 53 cm (21 in) torpedoes tubes, and two 2 cm (0.79 in) guns. Its fate after 1941 is unknown

experimental Schnellboot

U-boat ace Otto Kretschmer celebrating a successful cruise with the crew of U-99.  Do I detect product placement ?  Best regards, JR.

Otto Kretschmer and crew.

Chief of the Oberkommando der Marine, HQ of the Kriegsmarine from 1943 to 1945. Chosen By Hitler to be Germany's leader after his suicide.(Patdau)