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The eminent U-boat constructor Schürer saw no fundamental objection to this last proviso and Dönitz, in view of the immense amount of time that would so be saved, accepted Speer’s proposal.
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Dönitz, who regarded it as completely inadequate, asked Speer to submit counterproposals in reply, Speer promised to have the first boat completed in April 1944 and then to start serial production without trials, provided that the Type XXI programme was accorded priority over all other naval construction and that it proved possible to build the boats on prefabricated and mass-production principles.
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This programme presupposed that the Armaments Ministry was prepared to provide all the requisite building facilities and that work would proceed undisturbed by air raids and free of bottlenecks. In their original building proposals of July 1943, the German Naval Command envisaged the completion of the first two Type XXI U-boats in November and December 1944, with trials in the spring of 1945, after which serial delivery would gradually accelerate to 30 boats a month by the autumn. The Central Shipbuilding Committee and the new building programme This brief statement outlined the U-boat situation as FO U-boats saw it at the beginning of October 1944, irrespective of the general course of the war and in order to understand his apparent confidence in the future success of the new-type boats, it would be well at this point, to examine the provisions of the 1943 Fleet Building Programme, in so far as they affected the U-boat. Hence, if it were necessary to continue the campaign with these old types, the loss of the Atlantic bases would prove to be grave and decisive but the new Type XXI boats, by virtue of their very great endurance, high submerged speed and deep diving capability, should be able to thrust their way through the enemy A/S concentrations to operate successfully both in the North Atlantic and in remote areas…”. Theoretically, he can build up such heavy concentration in these regions that the old-type boats, which need to schnorkel fairly often, are bound to be located sooner or later and subjected to a concerted attack. “It must be assumed that the enemy will concentrate his A/S forces off Norway, and in the Atlantic passage, North Sea and Baltic approaches. As a rule we shall be unable to use the Type VIIC boats in the Channel, since the passage takes so long that they would be unlikely to arrive in a fit state to operate under such difficult conditions the only other areas remaining to them are the Moray Firth, the Minch and the North Channel in British coastal waters, and Reykjavik. The Type IXC boats will no longer be able to operate either in the Caribbean or on the Gold Coast without refuelling, and will therefore be obliged to concentrate mainly on the US coast, the Newfoundland area and also the St Lawrence, which is again accessible to schnorkel boats.
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A few Home ports will also be used, since the Norwegian bases have insufficient accommodation, and operational possibilities will thus be limited. Now that the French Atlantic ports are no longer in our possession, U-boat operations will be continued from Norway. Type XXI U-boot at Wilhelmshaven, model Aitor Azkue