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The German U-boat Captain who sank the most enemy ships in World War II was Otto Kretschmer. He sank a total of 47 ships (274,333 tons in total)

His submarine was sunk on March 17, 1941 and he spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of war in Canada.

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