Prisoner of War
On 19 June 1941 Wohlfarth started his second patrol on U-556, but just eight days later his boat was sunk in the North Atlantic southwest of Iceland by the British corvettes HMS Nasturtium, Celandine and Gladiolus. He and most of his crew were captured; one officer and four men were killed.
Wohlfarth then spent more than six years in English and Canadian prisoner of war camps. His war record stood at 21 ships sunk, totalling 66,032 GRT, and three more damaged, totalling 20,455 GRT. He returned to Germany on 14 July 1947.
Wohlfarth died on 13 August 1982 in Villingen, Germany, at the age of 67 years old. On 8 June 1989, three days after what would have been his 74th birthday, the wreck of Bismarck was located.
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