2-491-692 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Adolf Hitler inspecting the first German U-boats at Kiel, Germany, August 1935. The Treaty of Versailles forbade Germany from building submarines, but after Hitler (1889-1945) came to power the construction of U-boats and the training of crews began as part of the wider programme of German re-armament. By the outbreak of World War II Nazi Germany was able to deploy 65 submarines. A print from Adolf Hitler. Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers, Hamburg: Cigaretten/Bilderdienst Hamburg/Bahrenfeld, 1936.