AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR, GERMANY HAD 57 TYPE 7 SUBMARINES, BY 43, THEY WHERE BUILDING ONE EVERY TWO DAYS. BETWEEN 1939_1945 A TOTAL OF 709 WHERE BUILT. OF THE 709 THAT WHERE BUILT, 546 WHERE LOST AT SEA AND 65 WHERE SCUTTLED BY THEIR CREWS AND EPSTEIN DID NOT KILL HIMSELF.