Foreign U-Boats was the title for a special section created by the Nazi German Kriegsmarine that adopted 14 captured allied submarines into the U-Boat corps. Beginning in 1939 and lasting until the end of World War II in 1945, the Kriegsmarine modified a total of 14 captured allied submarines, then deployed them into combat with German crews. The special corps was not especially successful, as only nine allied ships were destroyed by Foreign U-Boats through the entire war, seven of those having been destroyed by German submarine U-A (effectively a modified Type IX U-Boat). However, some were effective as minelayers.
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“I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take active part in the quarrels of Europe. Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours. Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government, are all foreign to us. They are nations of eternal war.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)