REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA --Indonesian archaeologists got a surprising finding. They found a submarine wreck allegedly belonging to Nazi Germany in the Java Sea.
Base on provisional estimates, the submarine was a U-Boat types (Unterseeboot) belongs to Germany from World War II.
The discovery of the German submarines was a first time in Indonesia. Archaeologists from a number of agencies were doing research for ten days in the northeastern region of Karimun Java Islands. The research has begun since November 4.
Chairman of the National Archaeological Research Center (Pusarnas), Bambang Budi Utomo, said to ROL, researchers have been diving into the wreck. In this initial study, they took a sample of artifacts from the wreck of the submarine.
Some of the findings such as binoculars, diving equipment, and shoe soles, plates, glasses. The findings were then deposited in the laboratory of Pusarnas, South Jakarta.
"These findings are among the best in underwater archaeological researches in Indonesia," Utomo said, Monday (18/11).
The initial assumption was that the U-Boat boat was a part of Nazi German battleship fleet.
Indeed, the hull number has not been found yet. But from the artifacts taken for samples purpose, some showed characteristics of Nazi Germany. It was a bird emblem gripping the typical Nazi swastika symbol.
This symbol found on the bottom of the dinner plate. Researchers took samples of dinner plates and small plates from a space inside the submarine wreck.
Beside the Nazi flag image, it was also inscribed on the plate the name of manufacturer; Jaeger & Co. and Rieber Mitterteich.
Under the swastika image printed allegedly year of produce on 1939 and 1941.
From literature researches, Jaeger and Rieber was indeed tableware supplier to the German army.
The question then raised, Utomo said; what was the German submarine fleet doing in the waters of the Java Sea? What were the missions they carried out? Who did sink the submarine?
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