Joachim’s brother Udo tells at the Emden Bunker Museum’s homepages about the family’s desperate fight to trace the fate of the destroyers. Only after the German capitulation in 1945 Udo’s father was able to contact crew members from torpedoboats that were on that same mission, only then, the tragedy was stated true to its full extent. Ever since then, the Kraft family has continued its search efforts until the 2000s.

The picture shows Udo outside Fagerö on his brother´s birthday in May 2013.