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Also known as U-Boot, Unterseeboot

thumb|upright=1.25|, a typical VIIC/41 U-boat on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial near [[Kiel, Germany]]

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  • Early U-boats (1850–1914)
  • Pre–World War I classes
  • World War I (1914–1918)
  • Operations
  • World War I Classes
  • Interwar years (1919–1939)
  • Construction
  • Developments
  • U-Boat design and layout
  • World War II (1939–1945)
  • Operations
  • U-boat developments
  • Classes
  • Post–World War II and Cold War (after 1945)
  • Type 201, 202 and 205
  • Type 206 and 207
  • Type 209 and variants
  • Type 212 and variants
  • See also
  • Footnotes
  • Notes
  • Citations
  • References
  • Online
  • Further reading
  • External links

thumb|upright=1.25|, a typical VIIC/41 U-boat on display at the Laboe Naval Memorial near [[Kiel, Germany]]

U-boats are naval submarines operated by Germany, especially during World War I and World War II. The term is an anglicized form of the German word , a shortening of (). Austro-Hungarian Navy submarines were also known as U-boats.

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