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RE: Neutral shipping losses
Posted by: Ken Dunn ()
Date: March 25, 2001 02:43PM

<HTML>Hi Visje,

I am also trying to understand this. My interest is in exactly what the German rules of engagement were on October 19, 1941 for neutral ships. In the timeframe you are talking about I think a number of the ships sunk were in convoys. If that is true, I think being in an escorted convoy made them legal targets. Also, “operational areas” were declared by Germany in which any ship could be sunk.

In the case I am interested in the ship was attacked during the day. It was zigzagging and that and its course made the sub commander think it was a legitimate target.

I am of the opinion that if a country helps another country that is at war they do it at their own peril. For example, I think we were correct when we went into Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese were operating against us from a neutral country and we went in after them. The only thing we did that was wrong was that we didn’t go in soon enough and we didn’t stay long enough to finish the job. I have a hard time condemning Germany for doing the same thing. On the other hand, right and wrong have nothing to do with laws.

Does anybody know what the German rules were at this time? How about the rules of the other side? Under what conditions could a neutral ship be sunk?

Regards,

Ken Dunn
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Subject Written By Posted
Neutral shipping losses Visje 03/25/2001 12:45PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Ken Dunn 03/25/2001 02:43PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Visje 03/25/2001 04:26PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Ken Dunn 03/25/2001 10:53PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Visje 03/27/2001 08:02AM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Rainer Kolbicz 03/26/2001 07:45PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses kpp 03/26/2001 09:46PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Roy Prince 03/26/2001 11:44PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Visje 03/27/2001 06:11AM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Rainer Kolbicz 03/27/2001 09:45AM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Rainer Kolbicz 03/27/2001 10:06AM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Jan-Olof 03/27/2001 04:24PM
RE: Neutral shipping losses Antonio Veiga 03/25/2001 07:10PM


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