Photos from U - 93 December 1940 was taken shortly before the emblem " Hallo , wie geht 's ? " ( Hi what is said ? ) Is replaced by the emblem " Teufel " ( Devil ) new . Paint a picture of the emblem and it looks almost dashed by the weather , and also has a little emblem removed using the new paint . A little piece of black and white waves and the word " Hello " it has disappeared . BTW , If the fans talking about the U - boat emblem " Roten Teufel " ( Red Devil ) , then most of them would point U - 552 , a submarine commanded by the legendary hero of Erich Topp Kapitänleutnant that crisscrossed from 1941 to 1943. , But do not wrong ! Many other ships also choose " devil " as their emblem . One of them is the U - 93 , although earlier he also has had other emblems that are not less " conspicuous " . First commanded by Kapitänleutnant Claus Korth at Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel dated July 30, 1940 , after the acceptance test submarine type VII C is joined by 7 . U - Flotille St . Nazaire . Korth has previously been commander of U - 57 , a submarine type II C , from December 1938 to May 1940 along with 5 . , And then 1 . U - Flotille . At that time he completed 11 patrols and submarine equipped with emblems " Fackelschwingenden Teufel " ( Devil swing Torch ) . New ship will also carry other emblems are no less strange , and not have to wait long before the new design came out . The new emblem consists of a large sun shining smile behind the tape choppy black and white . Underneath is the phrase " Hallo , wie geht 's ? " . The design is inspired by the first officer aboard the ship Lech which is the mother of the first Korth U-boat , U - 57 . Every time U - 57 docked in the dock after patrolling , boatswain 's always friendly manyambut with the words "Hi, how 's it going? " . Because Kapitänleutnant Korth bring most of his old crew at the U - 57 to U - 93 , the majority of his men familiar with the simple phrase which has become the emblem of their ship . In addition , the sun is shining emblem of course means return safely , in accordance with the motto : " Uns geht die Sonne nicht unter " ( The sun is not shining on us ) . Emblem " Hallo , wie geht 's ? " Itself is used by U - 93 in three patrol first in the fall of 1940 . In the weeks after the end of patrol third dated 29 November 1940 , Kapitänleutnant Korth began to feel miss the emblem ever, " Roten Teufel " she wore in the first days as a submarine captain . Therefore , in December 1940 he was then assigned 1 . Wachtsoffizier ( First Supervisory Officer ) Oberleutnant zur See Götz von Hartmann , who was also a talented artist , to create a new devil emblem for U - 93 . Hartmann Design shows a devil with a net catching a steamer on it hanging where British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who was ngelepus with a cigar ! Once accepted by the captain , then in January 1941 the design of this conspicuous emblem was officially replaced the old " Hallo , wie geht 's ? " On the front of the control tower of U- 93 . The ship was completed three patrols in the spring and summer of 1941 when displaying the emblem . After her sixth patrol Kapitänleutnant Korth received a new assignment and in autumn 1941 his place as captain of the U - 93 was replaced by Oberleutnant zur See Horst Elfe . It is unknown whether the new captain , who previously commanded the U - 139 , while allowing the devil emblem entrenched in his ship . One clear , he certainly knows how disbelief of the crews on all symbols that smell " glücksbringer " ( good luck ) displayed on their boats . If it Oberleutnant zur See Elfe still put his old emblem , then he did not bring the expected results by the commander and the crew . Having set out to do a second patrol under the new commander of the days before Christmas of 1941 , on January 15, 1942 U - 93 hit by depth charges and sunk by the British destroyer HMS Hesperus in the waters of the North Atlantic in the north of Madeira in position 36 º 40'N / 15 º 52'W . As part of the " Gruppe Seydlitz " with U - 71 and U - 571 , U - 93 tried to attack the convoy HG 78 between Gibraltar and the Azores Islands , but then being able to be traced back and destroyed by the ships of the convoy escort . Fortunately , most of the crew survived and only six people who lost their lives . Back to the emblem " Roten Teufel " U - 552 belongs to the famous Erich Topp , to say here that the symbol of the devil is not the idea of an indigenous Topp or one of the crew . Instead , Topp first " get acquainted " with this emblem when he replaced Kapitänleutnant Claus Korth as captain of U - 57 , which displays the image " devil swing Torch " in the tower supervisor . In December 1940 and adopted the emblem Topp devil for a new ship , the U - 552
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Magazine " U - Boot im Focus " second edition 2007