Surrender of 4 German U-boats-- Part 6: Friedrich Steinhoff and What Happened to the U-boats

The commander of the U-873,  Friedrich Steinhoff, returned to his cell  at the Charles Street Jail in Boston with his face bloody and swollen.  An ONI  interrogator had ordered a big Marine to beat him up.  Steinhoff bled to death in his cell, possibly from  slashing his wrists with his broken glasses.

Ironically, he had a brother, Ernst Steinhoff, a rocket scientist.  Ernst Steinhoff also surrendered and helped the United States with its rocketry program.

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FATE OF THE GERMAN SUBMARINES

The U.S. Navy took the U-805  on several "Victory Visits" to ports on the U.S. Atlantic Coast before sinking her.

The U-1228 was sunk in 1946 and the U-873 was scrapped in 1948.

Finally, the U-234 was torpedoed in target practice off the Cape Cod Coast in 1947.

--GreGen