A U-Boat in the Amazon
Captain Igmar Schroonk set course west 23 degrees right toward the South American coast. He now realized that this was the end and the only possible course for survival. The southern Atlantic was rough but he knew the ocean as he knew the palm of his hand. After a week of very slow passage and on a sunny day at the bridge of the boat, Hans Slother noticed, in his binoculars, the green coast of Brazil and called his captain. That night at 12 miles from the mouth of the great Amazon River Igmar called his crew and told them his plan, which he had very carefully elaborated. “ This is my proposal” he said to the outlook of all the men in the darkened submarine…”We get into the river during the night and slip through any observation post, if there are any, then proceed very slowly up river”……………it was 1944
