USS Vance DE 387 U-873 Captain

German Submarine U-873 Commander, KPTLT Friedrich Steinhoff. He was 25 years old.
Steinhoff committed suicide 19 May 1945 while in Charles Street
Jail, Boston, MA, awaiting transfer to a POW camp.
Steihoff used the glass from his spectacles to slash his wrists.

U-873 was captured by USS Vance DE 387, 11 May 1945.

This photo appears to have been take aboard U-873. Do you know?
The three men holding guns are USS Vance crewmembers.

Photo courtesy of Joe Haberkern, son of Joseph W. Haberkern, Jr., MoMM2/C, Plankowner