The Biber, or Beaver, is a German midget submarine used by the Kriegsmarine during World War Two. Armed with two externally mounted torpedoes or mines, they were intended to attack coastal shipping. This specific Biber is from 1944. Photographed in Berlin at the Deutsches Technik Museum in 2016.











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