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00:00In 1991, a group of divers off the coast of New Jersey discovered a sunken Nazi submarine, U-869, in a place where it wasn't supposed to be.
00:11For many years, scientists struggled to solve the mystery.
00:14What was a German U-boat doing 3,000 miles away from where it was supposedly sunk?
00:19And in 2025, they finally uncovered a terrifying truth.
00:23It turned out this submarine didn't end up there by accident, and it almost changed the entire course of world history.
00:31World War II. Imagine the endless stretches of the Atlantic Ocean during the darkest days of human history.
00:39Beneath the dark waves lurked a deadly threat, German submarines that the Allies fearfully called U-boats.
00:45These steel predators roamed the depths like real sharks, ruthlessly hunting merchant ships.
00:51Every day, hundreds of ships crossed the ocean, bringing vital supplies to Britain.
00:57Food, oil, weapons, ammunition.
01:00Without these deliveries, the United Kingdom was doomed to hunger and defeat.
01:05Adolf Hitler knew this very well, so German submariners were given a simple and cruel order.
01:10Sink everything that moved under the flag of the Allies.
01:14The statistics from that war are horrifying.
01:16In six years of fighting, German submarines sent more than 3,500 ships to the bottom.
01:22That meant the loss of 14 million tons of cargo and tens of thousands of lives.
01:27Every month, the Atlantic became a graveyard for new ships, and it seemed the Reich's steel wolves were unstoppable.
01:34But among the hundreds of Kriegsmarine submarines, one was special.
01:38Her story began at a shipyard in Bremen, where, under the noise of hammers and welding machines, U-869 was born.
01:47On October 5, 1943, this type IXC-40 submarine was launched to the applause of the workers in the ceremonial march of a military band.
01:57Almost 250 feet long, equipped with six torpedo tubes and able to carry 22 torpedoes, a true machine of death, a symbol of engineering skill, and the militaristic ambition of the Third Reich.
02:12But U-869 was different from regular submarines.
02:15Her hull was reinforced with extra plates, the conning tower was equipped with the newest radio systems, and in the rear section, there was secret equipment known only to a few people in Bremen.
02:25This submarine was not just made to hunt merchant ships, she had a special mission.
02:31On January 26, 1944, U-869 officially joined the Kriegsmarine under the command of Lieutenant Commander Helmut Neuerberg, a 30-year-old officer with cold blue eyes and iron discipline.
02:44Neuerberg already had the reputation of one of the Reich's best submariners.
02:48He had survived the hell of the early years of the war when German U-boats ruled the ocean, and he knew the cost of every successful attack.
02:57U-869's crew consisted of 56 men, a mix of fanatical young men who believed Goebbels' propaganda and experienced sailors who saw war simply as a job.
03:07Among them was 20-year-old radio operator Martin Horenberg, who dreamed of studying electrical engineering after the war.
03:15Mechanic Franz Neumann, who had left behind a wife and two-year-old son.
03:19Torpedo man Karl Raga, who collected postage stamps and wrote poetry in his spare time.
03:25Each of them had their own story, their own hopes and fears.
03:29None of them knew that their names would go down in history in a way they never imagined.
03:33In the first few months, U-869 took part in training cruises and exercises.
03:39The crew practiced attack tactics, learned to use new equipment, and prepared for combat.
03:45Neuerberg was a demanding commander.
03:47He knew that in real battle there would be no room for mistakes.
03:51By the end of 1944, the situation on the fronts had changed drastically.
03:57Soviet troops were advancing from the east.
03:59First, Anglo-American forces had secured positions in France after the successful D-Day landings.
04:05And one by one, German cities were turning into ruins under Allied bombing.
04:10The war was lost, but the Third Reich had not yet surrendered.
04:14On December 8, 1944, U-869 received the order to leave the Norwegian base in Kristiansand
04:20and head out on its first combat mission.
04:23Officially, the goal was to hunt Allied convoys off the east coast of the United States,
04:29a dangerous but normal task for long-range submarines.
04:33Only a few came to see the submarine off.
04:36Most of the flotilla's officers already understood that the chances of coming back were slim.
04:41The war was in its final months, and the Allies were getting better every day at fighting the U-boat threat.
04:46New escort ships, advanced radar, experienced crews, everything was working against the German submarineers.
04:55Captain Neuerberg understood this very well.
04:57In his journal, which was only recently recovered, he wrote,
05:01We are heading out knowing that our chances of coming back are small,
05:04but each of us has sworn to fight to the end.
05:07If we are meant to die, we will die as heroes.
05:10The first days of the mission passed relatively quietly.
05:14U-869 crossed the North Sea, circled the British Isles, and entered the open Atlantic.
05:19The crew was getting used to combat conditions, constant dives, silence underwater, and the tents wait for orders.
05:27On December 29, 1944, an event occurred that completely changed the submarine's fate.
05:33The German Submarine Command sent new orders.
05:35Instead of heading for the American coast, U-869 was to go to Gibraltar,
05:41a strategically important point where the Atlantic meets the Mediterranean Sea.
05:46But did U-869 actually receive that new order?
05:49Radio communication during wartime was unreliable.
05:53Messages were often lost, distorted by interference, or intercepted by the enemy.
05:59It's possible that the fatal confusion began right then.
06:01On January 6, 1945, U-869 made contact, reporting its position somewhere in the North Atlantic.
06:10The message was brief and did not confirm receiving any new orders.
06:14On January 8, the last radio message from the submarine was sent.
06:19After that, complete silence, as if U-869 had vanished into the ocean's depths.
06:25Days passed, weeks turned into months, but there was no sign of the submarine.
06:29Command tried to reestablish contact, but the airwaves remained silent.
06:34U-869 had simply disappeared into the ocean.
06:38On February 11, 1945, American destroyers USS Howard D. Crow and USS Coiner
06:45were patrolling the waters off the coast of New Jersey
06:47when their sonar detected a submarine target.
06:51The contact was weak and unclear, but in wartime there was no room for doubt.
06:56It was an enemy submarine.
06:57The ship captains decided to attack.
07:01For several hours, the destroyers dropped dozens of death charges,
07:04methodically sweeping the area where the submarine was believed to be.
07:08The explosions shook the water, sending up debris and oil slicks to the surface.
07:13The attack was marked as successful.
07:15Reports noted, unidentified enemy submarine destroyed in grid CA-53.
07:20Later, military analysts compared the time, location, and expected route of U-869.
07:28Everything matched.
07:29Another German submarine had been sent to the bottom.
07:32But a few weeks later, the war ended, and U-869 was simply forgotten.
07:37Just one line in a massive list of losses, one of hundreds of submarines that never returned home.
07:43The families of the crew received the usual notices, missing in action while performing military duty.
07:50For many years, no one questioned the official version.
07:53U-869 had been sunk by American destroyers off the coast of New Jersey on February 11, 1945.
07:59End of story. Case closed.
08:02The ocean knows how to keep its secrets well.
08:05But sometimes it's willing to reveal them to those who are especially curious.
08:09September 2, 1991, was unusually calm for the waters off New Jersey.
08:15Captain Bill Nagel, a seasoned sailor with 40 years of experience,
08:19was navigating his ship, Seeker, along a familiar route.
08:23On board was a group of diving enthusiasts, hunters of sunken wrecks.
08:27These waters were a true ship graveyard.
08:31Over the centuries, hundreds of vessels had sunk here.
08:34Victims of storms, collisions, or war.
08:37For lovers of underwater archaeology, this place was a treasure trove of history lying on the ocean floor.
08:44Bill Nagel knew these waters like the back of his hand.
08:47Every sandbar, every current, every known wreck.
08:51So when the sonar showed a large object at a depth of 230 feet in a completely unfamiliar spot, the captain grew alert.
09:00There shouldn't be anything here, he muttered, studying the screen.
09:04The object was long and narrow, resting upright.
09:07Judging by its size and shape, definitely a warship and a large one.
09:11Among the divers on board were John Chatterton and Richie Kohler.
09:16Veterans of underwater exploration, whose names were already well known in the small community of wreck diving enthusiasts.
09:23Chatterton, a former commercial diver, had a reputation for going where others wouldn't dare.
09:28Kohler was a technical expert to the core.
09:31He could identify a ship's type from a single rivet.
09:33Diving to 240 feet in the cold, murky waters of the Atlantic is no fun for the fainthearted.
09:40It required special gas mixtures, careful planning, and long decompression stops.
09:46The smallest mistake, and a diver might never come back up.
09:50But that's exactly what Chatterton and Kohler were looking for.
09:54The adrenaline of discovery.
09:56The chance to be the first to see what the sea had hidden for decades.
09:59The opportunity to solve a historical mystery, all of it made the risk worth it.
10:06The descent took several minutes.
10:08Sunlight slowly faded, turning first into a greenish haze, then into deep blue darkness.
10:13At 230 feet, the divers turned on their powerful lights.
10:17And what they saw made their hearts race.
10:20Out of the darkness emerged a long metal hull, covered in years of marine growth and fishing nets.
10:26The conning tower with its distinct periscope, torpedo tubes at the bow, the remains of anti-aircraft guns.
10:34Everything pointed to a submarine from World War II.
10:37But what kind of submarine was it?
10:39American, German.
10:41There were no visible markings under the layers of rust and sea growth.
10:45The hull was badly damaged.
10:47A massive hole in the center suggested a catastrophic explosion.
10:52The first dive lasted only 20 minutes.
10:54The amount of time that could safely be spent at that depth.
10:58But it was enough to realize they had found something special.
11:01The submarine was large, clearly ocean-going, and didn't match any known vessel reported lost in those waters.
11:09The divers nicknamed the find, You Who?
11:12The mystery sub.
11:13Who built it?
11:15When did it sink?
11:16What happened to the crew?
11:18There were many questions and not a single answer.
11:20The next several years became an obsession for a small group of enthusiasts.
11:25Every weekend, when weather allowed, the seeker returned to the site.
11:29Divers went down into the cold darkness, spending precious minutes among the wreckage, trying to find the key to the mystery.
11:36Every dive was extremely dangerous.
11:39The depth, the cold, the limited visibility, and strong currents all worked against the explorers.
11:47The interior spaces of the submarine were filled with debris, tangled wires, and pipes, turning them into deadly traps for careless divers.
11:56Three people paid for this obsession with their lives.
11:59Steve Feldman died in 1992 after getting tangled in cables inside the submarine.
12:06He was trying to reach the radio room when a broken wire wrapped around his tanks.
12:11By the time his teammates found him, it was too late.
12:14Chris Rouse died of an air embolism in 1993.
12:18He surfaced too quickly after a 30-minute dive, breaking decompression rules.
12:24Nitrogen bubbles formed in his blood, blocking his blood vessels.
12:27He died in the hospital after several hours of agony.
12:31Charlie McGuire vanished in the submarine's compartments in 1996.
12:36He was exploring the rear section when he suddenly stopped responding to signals.
12:40His body was never found.
12:42Most likely, it remained somewhere in the maze of the sunken ship.
12:46But with each dive, the picture became clearer.
12:49The divers kept finding more evidence that this was a German submarine.
12:53Instruments with gothic lettering, parts with Kriegsmarine markings,
12:58remnants of German equipment.
13:00Everything pointed to the vessel's origin.
13:02In one of the cabins, they found personal belongings of the crew.
13:06A shaving kit in a waterproof case.
13:08A photograph of a young woman holding a child.
13:11A toothbrush with the initials Emichon carved into the handle.
13:15These small items made the tragedy feel personal.
13:17It wasn't just some nameless enemies who died here, but real people with hopes and fears.
13:24But the biggest mystery remained the submarine's identity.
13:27Which specific German U-boat was lying at the bottom off the coast of New Jersey?
13:31According to all official records, no U-boat had been lost in those waters.
13:36That meant the divers had found a ghost ship.
13:38The breakthrough came during one of the dives in 1995.
13:42John Chatterton was exploring the officers' quarters when he noticed a faint shine beneath some broken furniture.
13:48Carefully clearing the debris, he pulled out a small metal object.
13:51It was a knife.
13:53Not a combat weapon, but a regular table knife, like those used in ship mess halls.
13:59Engraved on the handle was a name, Horenberg.
14:02A simple German name.
14:04But for historians, it was the key to a great mystery.
14:07Martin Horenberg, 20 years old, second-class radio operator.
14:12His name was listed in the archives as part of the crew of submarine U-869,
14:17which, according to official records, had been sunk near Gibraltar in February 1945.
14:23But if this really was his knife, then where was the real U-869?
14:28Further discoveries left no doubt.
14:30Parts of a diesel engine with serial numbers matching U-869's records.
14:34Pieces of the hull bearing the shipyard marks from Bremen.
14:38Torpedo tubes with numbers listed in the submarine's official armament.
14:42In 1997, after six years of dangerous dives and painstaking research,
14:47the U.S. Navy finally confirmed.
14:50The sunken submarine off the coast of New Jersey was indeed U-869.
14:55The confirmation raised more questions than it answered.
14:58How did a submarine that, according to all documents,
15:01was supposed to be patrolling near Gibraltar and up 3,000 miles away from that location?
15:07Why had it remained silent on the radio?
15:09And most importantly, what was it doing off the American coast?
15:14The study of the wreck revealed surprising details.
15:18U-869 was destroyed instantly and completely unexpectedly.
15:22All the torpedo tubes were sealed.
15:25The submarine hadn't fired a single shot.
15:27There were no signs of an emergency surfacing.
15:30No SOS signals.
15:32No evidence of a struggle for survival.
15:34Something destroyed U-869 without warning,
15:37giving the crew no chance to escape.
15:39But what exactly?
15:41Once it became clear that the wreck off the coast of New Jersey
15:44belonged to the German submarine U-869,
15:48a new question faced the researchers.
15:51How exactly did it sink?
15:52The answer turned out to be just as mysterious as the discovery itself.
15:58There were two main theories,
15:59each with its supporters and critics.
16:02The first theory suggested self-destruction.
16:05German torpedoes during the war were powerful,
16:07but far from perfect weapons.
16:10Among their many flaws was one particularly dangerous defect.
16:13The so-called circular run.
16:16A torpedo designed to travel in a straight line toward its target
16:19could sometimes malfunction.
16:20A broken gyroscope or damaged steering system
16:23could cause it to curve in a wide arc
16:26and gradually turn back toward its own submarine.
16:29The result was catastrophic.
16:31Destruction by its own weapon.
16:33This wasn't just a theoretical possibility.
16:35There were documented cases where German submarines
16:38became victims of their own torpedoes.
16:41U-377 was lost this way in January 1944.
16:45U-972 suffered the same fate in December of that year.
16:48Every U-boat captain knew about this risk,
16:52but there was no way to fully eliminate it.
16:54Supporters of the circular run theory pointed to several key details.
16:58First, the damage to U-869 matched that of a torpedo explosion.
17:03Powerful, but contained.
17:05The central part of the hull was torn apart from the inside,
17:08which is typical for a detonation of onboard munitions.
17:10Second, there was no evidence that U-869 had engaged the enemy.
17:16The torpedo tubes remained sealed,
17:19meaning the submarine had either not yet found a target
17:21or was preparing for an attack but didn't have time to fire.
17:25Third, the location of the sinking matched an area
17:28where German submarines actively patrolled.
17:31U-869 could very well have been hunting American convoys
17:34when the tragedy happened.
17:35But this theory also had weaknesses.
17:38Why would Captain Neuerberg, an experienced submariner,
17:41choose to attack in waters where anti-submarine forces were clearly present?
17:46Where were the records of his intentions in the ship's log?
17:50And most of all, why didn't the crew try to save themselves?
17:54The second theory suggested U-869 was destroyed by American forces.
17:59The USS Howard D. Crow and USS Coiner did in fact attack a submarine target
18:05on February 11th, 1945, in the same area.
18:09Their depth charges could have sunk a German submarine.
18:12This version seemed logical and was supported by documentation.
18:16Reports from the American ships clearly recorded an attack on an unidentified submarine.
18:21The time, location, and circumstances all pointed to a connection
18:25between this attack and the sinking of U-869.
18:28Moreover, the tactic was typical for that stage of the war.
18:32American anti-submarine forces operated aggressively and efficiently.
18:37Detecting an unknown submarine automatically meant launching an attack.
18:41There was no time to confirm identity.
18:43But even here, questions arose.
18:46The coordinates of the attack did not exactly match the location
18:49where U-869's wreck was found.
18:51The difference was several dozen miles.
18:54Not critical, but enough to raise serious doubts.
18:56In addition, the nature of the damage didn't fully match what would be expected from depth charges.
19:02Such weapons usually tear a submarine's hull into many fragments.
19:06Yet U-869 had kept its general structure, despite serious damage.
19:11The study of the interior added more mysteries.
19:14In some compartments, divers found evidence of a sudden temperature spike.
19:18Metal parts were warped as if struck by an internal blast wave.
19:21This looked more like a munitions detonation than an external hit.
19:26In the radio room, some equipment had survived.
19:29While several devices were smashed, part of the radio gear remained relatively intact.
19:34On one transmitter, divers found traces of a last message.
19:39A partial radio signal that was never sent.
19:42Decoding the fragment took months.
19:44Experts used cryptographic methods, Krieg's marine code books, and computer programs to restore the text.
19:51The result was intriguing.
19:53The contact with enemy, preparing to attack, position.
19:58What did these words mean?
20:00Was U-869 about to attack an American ship?
20:03Or was it trying to report that it had been detected?
20:06The incomplete radio message only added more questions.
20:09Some researchers proposed a compromise version.
20:13Perhaps U-869 had been attacked by American ships, was damaged, but didn't sink right away.
20:19In an attempt to fight back, the crew might have launched a torpedo,
20:23which due to damage in its guidance system, circled back and struck their own submarine, finishing it off.
20:29This theory explained many contradictions.
20:32The nature of the damage, the presence of American ships, and the signs of an internal explosion.
20:38But it remained only a theory, without direct proof.
20:42Years passed, and the mystery of U-869 remained unsolved.
20:47Divers kept exploring the wreck.
20:49Historians argued over the details of the final battle.
20:52And the families of the lost crew finally had a place to grieve.
20:56But the true cause of the submarine's destruction was still unknown.
21:00Some details especially shocked the researchers.
21:03In the mess hall, cups with leftover coffee were still sitting on the tables.
21:07The crew had been caught off guard during an ordinary meal.
21:11On one of the bunks, an open book was found.
21:14Goethe's Faust, with a bookmark halfway through.
21:17In Captain Neuerberg's cabin, they found a letter addressed to his wife in Hamburg.
21:22It was written in neat handwriting and began with the words,
21:25My dearest Gretchen, I don't know if this letter will ever reach you, but I want you to know.
21:31I think of you every minute of this mission.
21:34The letter was never finished.
21:35The ink had been blurred by seawater, turning the last lines into unreadable smudges.
21:41But the very existence of the letter said a lot.
21:44The captain had been preparing for death and wanted to leave his last words to the woman he loved.
21:49In the engine room, the divers found another mystery.
21:53Someone had scratched strange symbols onto a metal bulkhead.
21:57Not German letters, not numbers, but geometric shapes.
22:01Circles crossed by lines, spirals, triangles with dots inside.
22:07What did they mean?
22:08A message?
22:09The final thoughts of a dying man?
22:11Or something else?
22:13Experts in German military symbols were unable to decode the markings.
22:17They didn't match any known system used by the Kriegsmarine.
22:21Even more puzzling was the style of the engraving.
22:24Too precise for someone in panic.
22:26Too deliberate to be random scratches.
22:28One detail especially intrigued the researchers.
22:32In the torpedo compartment, they found a strange modification to one of the torpedoes.
22:36Its warhead had been replaced with a bizarre device,
22:40a metal cylinder covered with antennas and wires.
22:43Nothing like it appeared in any German archives.
22:45What was it?
22:46A secret weapon?
22:48A reconnaissance device?
22:50An experimental technology?
22:52The device had been badly damaged in the explosion,
22:55but some parts were recovered and examined.
22:58The analysis revealed surprising results.
23:01The metal contained rare elements not used in standard military production.
23:05Some components had been manufactured with precision far beyond the capabilities of 1940s technology.
23:12And the strangest part?
23:14One part had a microscopic engraving with the date 1963.
23:19How could a German World War II torpedo contain a component made 18 years after the war ended?
23:25Was it a mistake or a hoax?
23:28But who would go to the trouble of planting fake parts in a wrecked submarine?
23:32The mysteries kept growing and the answers kept shrinking.
23:35U-869 had turned from a historical artifact into a real puzzle.
23:40One that called into question everything historians thought they knew about the final months of the war.
23:46Among all the tragic stories connected to U-869, there was one that stood out for its bitter irony.
23:53The story of a man who was supposed to die with the rest, but survived by chance.
23:58Radio operator Herbert Gyshevsky received his assignment to U-869 in November 1944.
24:07A 22-year-old from East Prussia, he had trained at the Kriegs Marine Radio School
24:11and was considered one of the top students in his class.
24:14The young man dreamed of becoming a radio engineer after the war
24:18and had even started studying electrical engineering by correspondence.
24:23Gyshevsky got along very well with the U-869 crew.
24:25He was especially close with Martin Horenberg, the other radio operator with whom he was to work in tandem.
24:32The two young men spent hours discussing new technologies,
24:35making plans for life after the war, and sharing letters from home.
24:40In early December 1944, as the submarine was preparing to leave port,
24:45something happened to Gyshevsky that at the time felt like an unfortunate setback.
24:49He came down with a severe case of the flu that led to lung complications.
24:53The ship's doctor firmly forbade him from joining the mission.
24:58I remember how I cried back then, Gyshevsky recalled many years later.
25:02It felt like my comrades were going off to perform a great duty,
25:06and I was left behind because of a stupid cold.
25:09I felt like a coward and a traitor.
25:11Instead of Gyshevsky, radio operator Klaus Weber was sent aboard U-869,
25:17called up from the reserve.
25:18A 24-year-old father of two, he saw the assignment as a chance to finally take part in real combat and prove himself.
25:26On December 8, 1944, Gyshevsky stood on the pier and watched the submarine depart.
25:32His 869 slowly pulled away from the shore,
25:35and through his binoculars, he could see the faces of his comrades on the bridge.
25:39Horenberg waved to him for the last time, as it turned out many years later.
25:45After U-869 was sent out, Gyshevsky was transferred to shore-based radio service.
25:51He received messages from submarines at sea and relayed them to fleet headquarters.
25:55It was he who received the last radio signal from U-869 on January 8, 1945.
26:01The message was very short, he recalled, just coordinates and confirmation of orders received.
26:08Nothing unusual.
26:10I never imagined it would be the last signal from my friends.
26:13When contact with U-869 was lost, Gyshevsky spent several days trying to reestablish communication.
26:20He knew the submarine's call signs, the frequencies the radio operators used,
26:25but the airwaves were silent.
26:26The submarine had vanished without a trace.
26:29In February 1945, the official notice came.
26:34U-869 was considered lost with all hands.
26:37Gyshevsky mourned his fallen comrades, but at the time,
26:40it never occurred to him to question the official version.
26:43The war was nearing its end, losses were increasing daily,
26:47and the loss of yet another submarine was seen as a tragic but expected reality.
26:52After the war, Gyshevsky returned to civilian life.
26:54He did become a radio engineer, got married, raised three children, and lived to see his grandchildren.
27:02U-869 gradually faded into the past, a painful war memory best left undisturbed.
27:08For many years, Gyshevsky lived with the belief that his crewmates had died off the coast of Gibraltar,
27:14fighting against overwhelming enemy forces.
27:16He regularly visited war memorials, laid flowers at monuments to summoners,
27:21and told his grandchildren about the heroism of U-869's crew.
27:26And then, in 1999, everything changed.
27:30Gyshevsky, by then 77 years old, was watching television in his home in a small German town
27:36when a PBS documentary called Hitler's Lost Sub began,
27:40a film about the search and identification of an unknown submarine off the American coast.
27:46At first, he watched with casual interest.
27:49Just another war story, but when underwater footage appeared on the screen
27:53and the host said the words,
27:55U-869, the old man's heart nearly stopped.
27:58That's impossible, he whispered, staring at the image of the sunken submarine.
28:04On the screen, they showed a knife engraved with the name Horenberg,
28:08the very same Martin he had befriended over 50 years earlier.
28:12Gyshevsky immediately contacted the filmmakers.
28:15His call was a sensation for the researchers.
28:18At last, someone had been found who personally knew the U-869 crew
28:22and could help confirm the identities of the dead.
28:25Over the next few months, Gyshevsky worked closely with John Chatterton and Richie Kohler.
28:31He examined photos of the recovered items, confirmed names,
28:34and described the personalities and habits of his former comrades.
28:38Every detail helped put a human face on the tragedy.
28:42Horenberg really did engrave his name on all his personal belongings, Gyshevsky confirmed.
28:48He was very meticulous, a real perfectionist, and he collected postage stamps.
28:53After the war, he wanted to travel across all of Europe.
28:58What shook Gyshevsky most was the news of where the submarine had actually gone down.
29:03All my life, I thought they had died as heroes fighting near Gibraltar.
29:07And now I find out they were lying off the coast of America,
29:11and no one even looked for them.
29:12It's just so unfair.
29:14The old man shared many details about the days leading up to the mission.
29:18He told how Captain Neuerberg held extra training sessions to prepare the crew
29:22for an especially important mission.
29:25And how, at the last moment, a mysterious passenger boarded the submarine,
29:29a civilian specialist whose name no one knew.
29:32We just called him the doctor, Gyshevsky remembered.
29:36He was short, slightly bald, wore glasses.
29:39He spoke perfect German, but had a light accent.
29:42Maybe Austrian.
29:43He had his own private cabin and barely spoke to the crew, only to the captain.
29:49This was an important detail.
29:51The official crew list of U-869 included no civilian specialist.
29:56Who was this mysterious passenger?
29:58What was his role in the submarine's mission?
30:01Unfortunately, it was no longer possible to get answers from Gyshevsky.
30:05In 2005, at the age of 83, the last man who was supposed to serve aboard U-869
30:11died of a heart attack in his own home.
30:14His final words recorded by his son were,
30:16I never understood why I got sick right then.
30:19Maybe fate wanted me to stay behind and tell their story.
30:22Now it's told.
30:24Now I can go to them.
30:26After Gyshevsky's death, his family handed over a box of military documents
30:30and photographs to the researchers.
30:32Among them were astonishing finds, unofficial snapshots of the U-869 crew taken before departure,
30:40letters from comrades serving on other submarines, and the most valuable of all,
30:45Gyshevsky's personal diary from December 1944.
30:49One diary entry, dated December 6, 1944, read,
30:54The doctor spoke with the captain for a long time today.
30:59I overheard bits of the conversation through the bulkhead.
31:03Something about new weapons and changing the course of the war.
31:07Horenberg joked that we were carrying the secret formula for victory.
31:11I wish I knew the truth.
31:12This note became another piece in the U-869 puzzle.
31:16What was the new weapon the mysterious doctor referred to?
31:19What was the formula for victory Horenberg joked about?
31:23And why was all of it kept so strictly secret?
31:26For decades, the mystery of U-869 seemed unsolvable.
31:30Researchers scoured every available archive,
31:33interviewed the last surviving veterans,
31:35and examined every fragment brought up from the seafloor.
31:38But the key questions remained unanswered.
31:41What was a German submarine doing off the coast of America?
31:45What mission was it on?
31:47Who was the mysterious passenger?
31:50Then in 2025, something happened that completely changed
31:53the understanding of the entire story.
31:56An international team of researchers led by Dr.
31:59Sarah Mitchell from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32:02gained access to a collection of U-869 documents
32:06that had been stored for decades in the archives of a naval museum.
32:11Most of the materials were so badly damaged by seawater and time
32:15that they couldn't be read using normal methods.
32:18But in 2025, scientists had access to revolutionary quantum neural algorithms,
32:24next-generation artificial intelligence systems
32:27capable of analyzing information in ways far beyond human ability.
32:31These algorithms could recover text from microscopic ink traces,
32:36decrypt encoded messages in seconds,
32:37and analyze the chemical makeup of paper to determine the age of documents.
32:43Even completely smeared records became readable thanks to molecular-level data analysis.
32:48The analysis process took several months.
32:51Quantum computers worked nonstop, processing terabytes of data.
32:54Slowly, from the chaos of damaged documents, an incredible picture began to emerge.
33:00The first results stunned the researchers.
33:03In the personal notes of Captain Neuerberg,
33:05previously thought to be completely lost,
33:08fragments were recovered that shed light on U-869's true mission.
33:13November 27, 1944.
33:16Received secret orders personally from Admiral Donitz.
33:18Our mission goes far beyond normal patrol duty.
33:22U-869 will take part in an operation that could change the outcome of the entire war.
33:27The full details have not been revealed yet, but the scale is truly impressive.
33:33November 30, 1944.
33:35Met with Dr. Fisher, our special passenger.
33:39That's not his real name, but I'm not supposed to know the real one.
33:43He's a theoretical physicist who has worked on top-secret Reich projects.
33:47What he told me about our mission made me rethink everything I thought I knew about the limits of modern science.
33:53December 3, 1944.
33:56The doctor showed me the device we'll be carrying instead of one of the torpedoes.
34:00He calls it Wunderwaffe 7.
34:02Wonder Weapon No. 7.
34:04On the outside, it looks like a metal cylinder covered with antennas.
34:08But the doctor claims this device could shift the balance of power in the Atlantic.
34:12The next entries were even more astonishing.
34:14December 5, 1944.
34:18Today, the doctor explained how our secret cargo works.
34:21It's not a weapon in the traditional sense, but a radio-electronic surveillance device of unheard of power.
34:28It can intercept and decode enemy radio traffic from up to a thousand miles away, even the most secure frequencies.
34:35But that's not the most important part.
34:39Wunderwaffe 7 can not only listen, it can also send out false information, imitating Allied radio stations.
34:46The doctor calls it radio-spectral camouflage.
34:49We'll be able to feed disinformation to the enemy, lead their ships into traps, and coordinate U-boat attacks with unprecedented precision.
34:57But this was only the beginning.
34:59Further decoding of the documents revealed the existence of a large-scale operation that historians had never suspected.
35:06The operation was codenamed Nordraben, Northern Raven.
35:10It was the Third Reich's last desperate plan to turn the tide of the war in the Atlantic and disrupt the Allies' final push into Europe.
35:19The plan was both grand and terrifyingly simple.
35:22By the spring of 1945, the Allies were preparing a massive transfer of troops and equipment across the Atlantic.
35:29The final push that was expected to bring about Germany's defeat.
35:33Hundreds of transport ships, thousands of aircraft, millions of tons of cargo.
35:39All of it was to cross the ocean within just a few weeks.
35:43The German high command fully understood.
35:45If these convoys reached Europe, the war would be lost for good.
35:50There was only one last chance.
35:52Destroy the transports at sea, stop the reinforcement,
35:55and by time to complete the development of an incredibly powerful weapon of mass destruction
36:00still being worked on in the Reich's secret laboratories.
36:03But traditional submarine warfare was no longer effective.
36:07The Allies had learned how to fight U-boats successfully.
36:10Their convoys were heavily guarded.
36:12State-of-the-art radar could detect submarines from long distances,
36:16and aircraft patrolled the sea routes around the clock.
36:19A completely new approach was needed.
36:21And Operation Nordraben offered exactly that.
36:24Instead of mass attacks that could be easily repelled by escorts,
36:29the plan called for creating a network of 11 special-purpose submarines.
36:33Each one carried a device of the Wunderwaffe 7 type
36:36and a highly trained electronic warfare specialist.
36:40The goal of these submarines wasn't to sink ships with torpedoes.
36:43Their mission was to become invisible coordinators of a massive trap.
36:47By intercepting Allied radio communications,
36:51the Nordraben subs could learn the exact routes of the convoys,
36:55the composition of their escorts,
36:56and the timing of their departures from port.
37:00They would then transmit false orders,
37:02causing Allied ships to change course, scatter,
37:06or enter zones where ordinary German U-boats lay in wait.
37:09At the same time, the Wunderwaffe 7 jammed radio signals between escort ships,
37:15creating chaos in their coordination.
37:18The convoys lost cohesion and became easy targets for torpedo attacks.
37:23According to German strategists,
37:25Operation Nordraben could destroy up to 70% of Allied transports heading to Europe.
37:29That would mean disaster for the planned invasion,
37:33a delay of months,
37:34and possibly a complete shift in war strategy.
37:38U-869 played a key role in this plan.
37:41As the most advanced submarine with the best crew,
37:43it was to act as the flagship of the operation,
37:47coordinating the actions of all other Nordraben subs
37:50and maintaining communication between them and U-boat command in Germany.
37:55Dr. Fischer wasn't just a passenger.
37:57He was the lead developer of Wunderwaffe 7
38:00and the Reich's top expert in electronic warfare.
38:03His real name was Dr.
38:05Werner Heisenberg Jr.,
38:07the nephew of the famous physicist
38:09and a brilliant scientist in his own right,
38:12working on the Third Reich's most advanced weapons programs.
38:15But Operation Nordraben required perfect coordination and absolute secrecy.
38:20The slightest leak of information would turn the entire plan into a suicide mission.
38:24That's why U-869 was under strict radio silence
38:28until the active phase of the operation.
38:31The decrypted documents revealed that the active phase of Nordraben
38:34was scheduled to begin on February 15, 1945,
38:39precisely when German intelligence expected the largest Allied convoy
38:42to depart from the east coast of the United States.
38:46But on January 8, 1945, something went wrong.
38:49The final radio message from U-869 contained an encrypted distress signal
38:54detected by anti-submarine forces, device at risk,
38:59maintaining silence protocol, executing alternate plan.
39:03What was the alternate plan?
39:05The algorithms found the answer in secret instructions
39:08given to Nordraben's submarine captains.
39:11If there was a real danger of Wunderwaffe 7 being captured by the enemy,
39:15the crew was ordered to destroy the device
39:17and all related documentation at any cost,
39:21even at the cost of their own lives.
39:23Captain Neuerberg was faced with a choice.
39:26Try to escape, risking the capture of the top-secret device,
39:30or destroy the submarine along with the crew
39:32to protect the secrets of Operation Nordraben.
39:34He chose duty.
39:36On February 11, 1945, U-869 was located by American destroyers.
39:43It's possible that Allied anti-submarine forces
39:45had detected it even earlier and had been tracking it for days,
39:49hoping to capture it intact and obtain valuable intelligence.
39:52But when it became clear that escape was impossible,
39:56Neuerberg gave the order for self-destruction.
39:58Wunderwaffe 7 was detonated directly in the torpedo compartment.
40:01The explosion was so powerful that it tore the submarine's hull in two.
40:06All 56 crew members died instantly,
40:09but the secret of Operation Nordraben was preserved.
40:13The loss of U-869 was a catastrophe for Germany's plans.
40:17Without its flagship and main coordinator,
40:20the entire Nordraben operation became blind.
40:23The remaining submarines tried to act on their own,
40:25but without centralized command, they quickly lost effectiveness.
40:29The result was catastrophic for the Reich.
40:33Instead of 70% losses,
40:35the Allies lost less than 5% of their transports.
40:39The operation failed,
40:40the main reinforcement forces crossed the Atlantic almost unhindered,
40:45and the war ended on schedule.
40:47An analysis of alternative scenarios
40:49conducted by modern supercomputing systems
40:52revealed terrifying results.
40:54If Operation Nordraben had succeeded,
40:57the Allies would have lost critical resources needed for their final offensive.
41:01The war in Europe would have been prolonged by at least a year,
41:05possibly two.
41:06During that time,
41:07German scientists would have completed development of atomic weapons.
41:12By the end of 1945,
41:14the Reich would have had several nuclear bombs in the means to deliver them.
41:17A desperate Hitler,
41:19knowing defeat was inevitable,
41:21would not have waited,
41:23and would have ordered nuclear strikes on London,
41:25Moscow,
41:26and New York as early as 1946.
41:28This would have marked the beginning of the first nuclear war in human history,
41:33three years before the USSR developed its own atomic weapons.
41:37Hundreds of millions of people would have perished in nuclear fire,
41:40and radioactive fallout would have made entire regions uninhabitable for centuries.
41:47Europe would have been reduced to ruins,
41:49but the most shocking discovery was how close the Germans had come to success.
41:54Among the decrypted documents were readiness reports from the other Nordraben submarines.
41:59Ten of them were already in their designated patrol zones,
42:02their Wunderwaffe 7 devices were functioning properly,
42:05and their crews were fully prepared for action.
42:08The operation collapsed at the very last moment,
42:10if U-869 had not been detected by the Allies,
42:14if Captain Neuerberg had made a different decision,
42:17if even one small thing had gone differently,
42:20the course of world history would have been changed forever.
42:23Today, with all documents declassified and the mystery of U-869 finally solved,
42:29it has become clear Captain Neuerberg's decision
42:31was one of the most important in human history.
42:3556 men gave their lives to prevent a global catastrophe.
42:38The irony is that they never knew the true meaning of their actions.
42:42To the crew, it was a matter of duty, following orders, protecting a military secret.
42:48They couldn't have imagined that their deaths would save millions of lives
42:52and prevent a third world war.
42:53The American sailors aboard USS Howard D. Crowe and USS Coyner
42:58had no idea of the significance of their mission either.
43:02To them, it was a routine anti-submarine operation.
43:06Find and attack an enemy U-boat.
43:08They didn't know their depth charges would force the captain of U-869
43:12to make the fatal decision to self-destruct.
43:16They didn't know they had triggered an explosion
43:17that would prevent one of the greatest disasters in human history.
43:21The 2025 document investigation also shed light
43:25on the fate of other participants in Operation Nordrubben.
43:29Of the 11 special submarines,
43:31only three survived until the end of the war.
43:33The other eight were lost between February and April, 1945.
43:37U-1023 was rammed by a British destroyer on February 18, 1945.
43:44Her crew tried to surrender,
43:46but Von der Waffe 7 exploded during the evacuation,
43:50killing both the German summoners and the British sailors
43:52who tried to rescue them.
43:55U-1109 struck a mine on February 22 off the coast of Ireland.
44:00The commander managed to send a short message,
44:02executing protocol, glory to the Reich.
44:05After that, all contact was lost.
44:08U-1195 vanished without a trace on February 28 near the Azores.
44:13It was likely sunk by the American submarine U.S. Spatfish,
44:17but this has never been confirmed.
44:20One by one, the Nordrubben submarines were lost in the depths of the ocean,
44:24taking with them the last hopes of the Third Reich
44:26to change the course of the war.
44:28Many of the deaths were the result of deliberate choices,
44:31commanders preferring death to the capture of their secret equipment.
44:35Among the surviving submarines were U-1201, U-1230, and U-1276.
44:43After the war, their crews remained silent about their missions for many years.
44:47Only in the 1970s, after most participants had passed away from old age,
44:52did some details begin to surface through Western intelligence.
44:55The former commander of U-1201, Oberleutnant Kurt Steinbach, said in a 1978 interview,
45:02We knew we were carrying something special,
45:05but we didn't understand the scale of the operation.
45:08Only now, 30 years later, do I begin to realize what might have happened if we had succeeded.
45:13When we received news that U-869 was lost, we understood.
45:18The operation had failed.
45:20Without the coordinator, we were just isolated submarines scattered across the world's oceans.
45:25But orders were orders.
45:27We continued patrolling, waiting for the signal to attack.
45:31That signal never came.
45:33Steinbach also confirmed U-869's central role in the operation.
45:38Neuerberg was the best of us.
45:40His submarine carried the main device, the one that could control all the other Wunderwaffe units.
45:47When he died, we lost not only our commander, but the ability to operate as one.
45:52The 2025 document decryption revealed another terrifying fact.
45:58Operation Nordraben was only the first phase of a much larger plan called Ragnarok, Twilight of the Gods.
46:05Had the Allied troop reinforcement across the Atlantic been successfully disrupted,
46:09the next stage would have been a campaign in the Pacific.
46:13German submarines were to attack American supply bases, supporting the war against Japan.
46:18This would have prolonged the Pacific campaign by at least two more years.
46:22During that time, the German-Japanese alliance would have had the opportunity to develop and produce nuclear weapons.
46:28By 1946, the Axis powers could have possessed enough atomic bombs to deliver a devastating strike against their enemies.
46:36The Ragnarok plan called for simultaneous nuclear attacks on London, New York, Moscow, and several other key allied cities.
46:44After that, Germany and Japan would demand peace negotiations, but only on their terms.
46:49Modern historians agree, if this plan had been carried out, humanity would have faced global catastrophe.
46:56A nuclear war in 1946 would have killed tens of millions and pushed civilization back by centuries, possibly even millennia.
47:04All of this was accidentally prevented by the crew of one German submarine who chose death over disgraceful capture.
47:11The 2025 research not only uncovered the truth behind Operation Nordreben, it also led to many other astonishing discoveries.
47:20Among the personal items recovered from U-869 were artifacts that challenged long-held assumptions about the final months of the war.
47:30In Dr. Heisenberg's cabin, a sealed container was found with documents once believed to have been completely destroyed.
47:37Inside were blueprints and calculations from the German atomic program, far more advanced than historians had believed.
47:44It turned out that by late 1944, German physicists were much closer to building a nuclear bomb than the Allies had thought.
47:53They lacked only enriched uranium and a few more months to fully assemble a functioning weapon.
47:59If the war had lasted even six more months, the Reich would have had nuclear arms.
48:05Among the documents were also schematics for Wunderwaffe 7, a device decades ahead of its time.
48:10Its operating principles were based on quantum effects not officially discovered until the 1960s.
48:17How German scientists managed to create such a technology in the 1940s remains a mystery.
48:23Dr. Elizabeth Cohen, a leading historian of science at Princeton University who studied the documents, stated,
48:28What we're seeing cannot be explained by 1940s technology.
48:32Either German scientists made discoveries we still don't fully understand,
48:37or they received help from a source we don't yet know.
48:39Even more intriguing were Dr. Heisenberg's personal notes.
48:44In them, he mentioned consultations with colleagues from the future, and knowledge passed through time.
48:51Most researchers believe these entries were the result of psychological stress during wartime.
48:56But some specialists suggest more exotic explanations.
49:00In Heisenberg's diary, there is an entry from November 20, 1944.
49:05Met with them again today.
49:06People in white suits, speaking German with a strange accent.
49:10They showed me formulas I can't comprehend.
49:13Yet I somehow know they're correct.
49:16They said they come from a world where the war ended differently.
49:19The next entry is even stranger.
49:22They warned me about U-869's fate.
49:25Said our mission would fail, but that's a good thing.
49:27If we succeed, the world will burn in nuclear fire.
49:30They asked me to deliver a message to Captain Neuerberg, but I don't know if I should trust these visions.
49:36The final entry in his diary is dated December 8, 1944.
49:40The day U-869 departed.
49:43I've decided not to tell the captain.
49:45Maybe these are just hallucinations from exhaustion.
49:48But if the visions are true, then we are going to our deaths to save the future.
49:53A strange mission for a scientist.
49:55To die so that humanity may live.
49:57Other mysterious items were also found among the crew's belongings.
50:02Radio operator Horenberg kept a journal in which he described strange radio signals picked up by the submarine's equipment.
50:09He wrote,
50:10December 15, 1944.
50:12Hearing those strange transmissions again on 2847 megahertz.
50:17The language sounds like German, but many words are unfamiliar.
50:21It feels like someone is broadcasting news reports.
50:24From the future.
50:24Hornberg even made written records of those transmissions.
50:29Modern analysis confirmed that many of the predictions actually came true.
50:34They mentioned the end of the war in May 1945.
50:37The Nuremberg trials.
50:38The founding of the United Nations.
50:41And even manned spaceflight.
50:43How could a young radio operator have known about all of this?
50:47Mechanic Franz Neumann left notes describing strange technical issues on the submarine.
50:51Sometimes the instruments show impossible reading, he wrote.
50:56Thermometers register minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit in the engine room, then 176 degrees Fahrenheit a minute later.
51:04Compasses point to non-existent magnetic poles.
51:07It's like the sub isn't in our world.
51:09What truly stunned researchers was the diary of the youngest crew member, 18-year-old Werner Schmidt.
51:17In an entry dated January 3, 1945, he wrote,
51:21Had a dream that we will all die in a week.
51:24But it won't be just death.
51:26We'll become heroes, remembered 80 years from now.
51:29Strangely, when I woke up, I didn't feel fear, only pride.
51:35His final diary entry is dated January 8, 1945.
51:40Today we sent the last transmission.
51:43There will be no more contact.
51:45The captain said we're carrying out the most important mission in human history.
51:49If he's right, then our deaths will be worth it.
51:51The analysis of these documents led to an unexpected conclusion.
51:56Somehow the crew of U-869 seemed to know their tragic fate in advance.
52:01Not the details, but the overall outcome.
52:04That they wouldn't return home, but their sacrifice would matter for the whole world.
52:10How could ordinary sailors have possessed such knowledge?
52:13Modern science has no answer.
52:15Some researchers suggest that Operation Nordraven may have involved technologies that went beyond the known laws of physics.
52:23In Dr. Heisenberg's archives, blueprints were discovered for a device called the chronoscope.
52:28A machine designed to observe the past and future.
52:31Its operation was said to rely on space-time distortion using powerful magnetic fields.
52:37Whether the device ever actually worked remains unknown.
52:41But one fact is certain.
52:42The crew of U-869 knew more than they should have.
52:46And that knowledge helped them make the right decision at a critical moment.
52:50Today, with the full picture of Operation Nordraven finally reconstructed,
52:55historians can fully grasp the scale of what happened in February 1945.
53:00The loss of U-869 didn't just end a military operation.
53:04It saved human civilization from global catastrophe.
53:07Modern supercomputers have simulated the terrifying chain of events that would have unfolded had the operation succeeded.
53:15Humanity would have faced nuclear disaster as early as 1946.
53:19The successful destruction of allied convoys would have delayed the European invasion by 8 to 12 months.
53:26In that time, German scientists would have completed a functional atomic bomb.
53:30Japan, given breathing room in the Pacific, would also have had time to develop nuclear weapons.
53:36By the end of 1946, the Axis powers would have possessed enough nuclear warheads to execute the Ragnarok plan.
53:43Simultaneous strikes on London, New York, Moscow, Leningrad, and Washington.
53:49A desperate Hitler, seeing defeat as inevitable, would not have waited.
53:53It would have been the beginning of the first nuclear war in history, three years before the world was ready for it.
54:00Hundreds of millions would have died in atomic fire.
54:04Radioactive fallout would have rendered entire continents uninhabitable.
54:08By 1947, only ruins would have remained of human civilization.
54:12All of this was prevented by the deaths of 56 men aboard U-869.
54:17The revelation of U-869's true story in 2025 became a turning point for all humanity.
54:25For the first time, people saw how close the world had come to self-destruction and the role ordinary individuals unknowingly played in preventing it.
54:34The international community responded immediately.
54:37A special task force was created.
54:39The U-869 Commission, composed of top scientists, ethicists, and world leaders, with the authority to suspend any research that might threaten human existence.
54:50Its first act was a temporary halt to experiments with quantum computers, capable of instantly cracking the entire global cybersecurity infrastructure.
55:00We will not repeat the mistakes of 1945, said the commission's chairperson.
55:05Technology must serve humanity, not destroy it.
55:08A month later, the U-869 protocol was signed.
55:12An international agreement requiring all nations to report the development of potentially dangerous technologies to the global community.
55:19The protocol was signed by all of the world's major powers.
55:23Despite the revolutionary discoveries, U-869 still keeps its secrets.
55:28Analysis of certain components of Wunderwaffe 7 revealed that they were made from materials that didn't exist in the 1940s.
55:35Even more puzzling, some parts contained isotopes that could only have appeared using technologies developed in the 1960s.
55:42Even stranger were the crew's notes about people from the future.
55:47Different crew members, who had no chance to coordinate stories, described identical visitors in white suits who predicted specific wartime events months before they occurred.
55:57The fate of Dr. Heisenberg remains a mystery.
56:00His body was never found among the remains of the crew, and damage to his cabin indicates that no one was inside at the moment of the explosion.
56:09An intriguing detail.
56:10In the 1960s, a physicist with the same name worked in the U.S., contributing to the early Internet and space program.
56:17Coincidence?
56:18Coincidence?
56:19Or something more?
56:20The three surviving Nordroben submarines also vanished under mysterious circumstances.
56:25All were officially decommissioned or sunk as targets between 1946 and 1948.
56:32But witnesses claim that the explosions during their destruction were far more powerful than standard demolitions.
56:38Some researchers believe in the existence of a secret international organization that, after the war, systematically destroyed dangerous technologies.
56:47This could explain many Cold War anomalies and the sudden shutdown of promising scientific projects.
56:53Today, U-869 rests on the seafloor as an underwater memorial.
56:57Each year, international remembrance ceremonies are held above the wreck, attended by heads of state.
57:03A plaque on the submarine's hull bears the names of the fallen in the words,
57:08They died not knowing they had saved the world.
57:11Museums have been built in their honor.
57:13An asteroid and a lunar crater have been named after the crew.
57:16But the greatest legacy of U-869 is the shift it caused in human thinking.
57:22New generations are now raised with the understanding that every technological achievement must be weighed against its ethical implications.
57:29AI developers refer to, to the U-869 principle, the willingness to stop research if it risks catastrophic consequences.
57:38The world's largest corporations have incorporated this principle into their ethics codes.
57:43In military academies worldwide, the story of U-869 is studied as a case where following orders could have led to disproportionate global consequences.
57:52Future officers are taught to consider not just tactical outcomes, but strategic risks to humanity.
57:59The story of U-869 is more relevant today than ever, as humanity stands on the threshold of new revolutions.
58:05Quantum computing, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, and fusion energy.
58:11Each capable of bringing either tremendous progress or unprecedented destruction.
58:16Fifty-six people at the bottom of the Atlantic remind us that we always have a choice.
58:21We can use knowledge to build or to destroy, to unite or divide humanity.
58:27Our future depends on the decisions we make today.
58:30Their sacrifice saved the world from nuclear catastrophe and gave humanity a second chance.
58:36To grow, to learn, to pursue a better future.
58:41Today, as we dream of the stars, cure diseases once thought incurable, and create technologies of abundance.
58:48We must remember, all this was made possible by the choice of one crew in the cold waters of the Atlantic.
58:54The story of U-869 is not just a military mystery.
58:58It is a lesson in courage, wisdom, and responsibility.
59:02A reminder that ordinary people, at a critical moment, can change the course of history.
59:07And as long as humanity remembers this lesson, there is hope.
59:11That we will build a future worthy of the sacrifice made by those heroes who chose to die so the world could live.
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