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RE: Neutral shipping losses
Posted by: Visje ()
Date: March 25, 2001 04:26PM

<HTML>Hi Ken,

I can\'t say for all neutral ships sunk, but all Dutch ships sunk by U-boats between September 3 1939 and May 1940 were not sailing in convoy, nor were they helping the British ( as far as I can tell ). Basically, the German \"Prisenordnung\" stated that neutral ships were to be seached, and when the cargo was mentioned in the list of contrabands, it was allowed to sink the ship. However, I wasn\'t talking about these instances here. There were a number of Dutch ships sunk, which were a) not heading for an Allied port b) not carrying contraband c) not doing anything pro-British whatsoever.

Your answer made me curious. Do you have any idea where these \"shoot-on-sight\"-areas were ? </HTML>

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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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