>It reminds me of a thing: I have a couple of books about U-505,
>the Type IXC U-boat they have at (of all places) the Museum of Science
>and Industry in Chicago, and one of the things that comes up in both
>is that when the museum was restoring the submarine in the 1950s, they
>wrote to the German companies that had made various bits and pieces of
>it that had gone missing or been destroyed over the years since its
>capture, asking whether they might still have or know where the museum
>could get spares. They all sent what bits they had along without
>charging for them, usually with a note saying something to the effect
>of "we hate that you're showing off our submarine like some kind of
>fishing trophy, but we at least want it to be as impressive as
>possible." Which is sort of peak German. :)

At least she was treated with better care than U-534. If U-505 was the trophy fish put on display, U-534 is the fish the taxidermist didn't think was worth preserving. First she gets pulled off the sea floor because of rumors of Nazi gold, then they shuffle her off to a preservation trust that kept her sitting on a pier for a decade in the open air, before finally she gets chopped into five pieces and put on display at a ferry terminal.

In the UF-verse, her poor Mental Model must have been rather...perturbed by the whole series of events.