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There are even more documentaries here ➡️ https://kurz.zdf.de/bXgY/ A new documentary every Wednesday and Saturday? Then subscribe to ZDFinfo. In 1943, one of the largest armament projects of the Second World War began: the construction of the "Valentin" submarine shipyard in Bremen-Farge. At the same time, the Allies were already advancing and the German Navy was suffering heavy losses. Hitler's goal was to turn the tide of naval warfare by building the submarine shipyard and producing new submarines. Building the bomb-proof factory was extremely hard work. Over 10,000 concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war had to work on the construction site under inhumane conditions - without protective clothing, in heat or frost. More than 1,600 of them died of malnutrition, physical exhaustion or the arbitrariness of the guards. What fates lie behind the walls of this enormous relic of the Nazi era? And why was the building never completed? A FILM BY Kathrin Schwiering CAMERA Klaus Kurth Dirk Heeth Derek Pascoe Marina Schneiders SOUND Tobias Rüping Raimund von Scheibner Veit Klück EDITING Safy Jana Reske SPEAKER Daniela Hoffmann GRAPHICS PAUL'S BOUTIQUE TYPEHOLICS PRODUCE Alexandra Hardorf RESEARCH Chrysanthi Goula Barbara Barkhausen EXPERT ADVICE Prof. Sönke Neitzel PRODUCTION Hannah Lenitzki (Bremedia) Annika Michalke (Bremedia) Sina Eckhardt (ZDFinfo) ARCHIVE Federal Archives; Critical Past; German U-Boat Museum; DPA; IWM; Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial; Bremen State Center for Political Education; National Archives; Radio Bremen; Shutterstock; Bremen State Archives; Vision Church Music EDITORIAL Christoph Pöthke Kathrin Beck A PRODUCTION BY Bremedia ON COMMISSION BY ZDFinfo ZDF 2024 Check it out here too: #ZDFinfo on Instagram: / zdfinfo ZDFinfo on TikTok: / zdfinfo ZDFinfo on Facebook: / zdfinfo ZDFinfo on Twitter: / zdfinfo #zdfinfo #submarine #ww2 00:00 Intro 01:03 Gigantic proportions 03:30 Submarine war in the North Atlantic 07:58 Type XXI submarine 10:12 Construction of the bunker shipyard 15:43 Use of forced laborers 23:42 Descendants searching for traces 30:01 Remembrance today 37:21 Air raid on the bunker