Among the vessel's new technology was a battery system that could allow it to remain submerged for several days at a time, making it a perfect getaway vessel, Andersen said.įollowing the end of World War II, rumors abounded that high-ranking Nazi officers (including Hitler himself) had escaped to South America on similar long-range submarines. Their mission remains unknown, but museum researchers suspect that the boat was likely fleeing for safety days after German forces surrendered in Denmark, the Netherlands and northern Germany. The bow of the 250-foot-long (76 meters) submarine stabbed into the seafloor some 400 feet (120 m) below the water's surface, slanting upward with the boat's stern floating 65 feet (20 m) above the bottom of the sea.Īccording to the museum, the boat embarked from Denmark with 58 crewmembers, all of whom perished in the bombing. He now serves as leader of the opposition in the Knesset, Israel's parliament.Researchers with the museum found the half-buried wreckage of U-3523 about 10 nautical miles north of Skagen, the northernmost city in Denmark. He served as prime minister from 2009 until last year, when he was unseated by a coalition of his opponents following a fourth parliamentary election in two years.
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Netanyahu is currently on trial in three other corruption cases and has denied any wrongdoing. Gantz said on Twitter after the vote that launching the investigation is of “the highest security need, and a clear message that you cannot play with Israel's defense.”įormer Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak on Sunday called the matter “the most serious corruption scandal in Israel’s history.” Anti-Netanyahu protesters who demonstrated outside his Jerusalem residence until his ouster from office last year had called for an investigation into his role in the submarine scandal. The approval of a state investigation came more than a year after Defense Minister Benny Gantz authorized a probe into Netanyahu's role in the affair. Nitzan Horowitz, Israel's health minister and a Cabinet member, said the government investigation “is a critical step in the fight against corruption and is essential for the defense establishment.” RM MDG0H31940s German Submarine U-Boat Untersee WW2 German Kriegsmarine navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945 U2 Type Submarine on manoeuvres Imperial German. The state commission of inquiry has sweeping authority to investigate and summon witnesses, and its recommendations typically guide government policy. Their weapons systems can fire torpedoes using six 533mm torpedo tubes. These submarines are about 56 meters long with a 7-meter-wide beam and can travel up to 20 knots when submerged. “Our sole consideration is the security of Israel.” Germany possesses six of Class 212A diesel-electric attack submarines and all are equipped with air-independent propulsion (AIP) system. "The processes for defense acquisitions in this government are clean of outside considerations," Bennett said at the start of Sunday's Cabinet meeting. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett abstained.
The Cabinet authorized establishing a state investigation into the case by vote. The formidable U-boats (unterseeboots) prowled the Atlantic. Photo shows sub in the quarantine area during the morning, Baltimore Maryland. The former prime minister was questioned, but not named as a suspect, in the scandal, referred to in Hebrew as “ Case 3000.” Germany retaliated by using its submarines to destroy neutral ships that were supplying the Allies.
The graft scandal surrounds a possible conflict of interest and bribery involving a $2 billion purchase of naval vessels from Germany's Thyssenkrupp that implicated some of Netanyahu's closest associates. JERUSALEM - Israel's Cabinet approved Sunday the launch of a state investigation into an affair involving the purchase of submarines and other warships from Germany, a case that has embroiled close confidants of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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