>>Most of the survivors were caught up in the orgy of waste that was
>>Operation Deadlight, or its Pacific equivalent (like
>>U-511/Ro-500 and I-401), mostly in the name of
>>keeping the Commies from getting their hands on all the lovely
>>technology.
>
>Just out of curiosity, what do you think should have been done with
>them?

Leaving aside the fact that many of them were perfectly good submarines that were more advanced than anything the Allies were presently operating (and that operating enemy vessels taken as prizes of war is a course of action that had long, long precedent in the navies of the world), they might at least have been properly scrapped. Thousands upon thousands of tons of high-quality steel, advanced marine engines, powerful electric motors, etc., just thrown away. Waste on top of waste. I suppose it's a fitting coda to history's most destructive war, in a way, but still.

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