In the interwar period, the Germans endured the bitter consequences of the Treaty of Versailles imposed by the victors. But that didn’t mean they would willingly comply.
In truth, the German military kept looking for loopholes and tricks to rebuild its glorious power as the years passed. And one foolproof way to continue with its U-boat engineering legacy was to create a secret corporation.
Based in the Netherlands, NV Ingenieurskantoor Voor Scheepsbouw was a dummy company that, as early as the 1920s, researched and developed the submarines that would roam the Atlantic 20 years later.
Despite the limits that bound them, nothing would stop the Germans from bulking up their fleet well before World War 2 broke out…
