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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Robyn Vinter

Condoms to secret documents: Nazi U-boat items to go on display for first time

Items found include an air-testing kit, with glass tubes still containing pink liquid.
Items found include an air-testing kit, with glass tubes still containing pink liquid. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

There are two enigma machines, dozens of bottles of French wine and about 200 condoms – alongside toothpaste that’s still minty, and coffee which has retained its aroma.

A trove of extraordinarily well preserved Nazi artefacts, recovered from a sunken U-boat in the 1990s after nearly 50 years at the bottom of the ocean, are to go on public display for the first time.

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