Messerschmitt bring us another Axis War Hero presentation, this time concentrating on the compassion shown by Germans towards enemy civilians.
The main subject today is not a person, but the so-called "Laconia Incident". In September 1942 a German U-boat under the Command of Werner Hartenstein torpedoed the British troopship Laconia.
As Hartenstein realized Italian prisoners of war and even civilians including women and children were among the survivors struggling for their lives, he ordered for as many as possible to be taken on board the U-boat.
Even though he radioed his intentions to all surrounding vessels in plain English and had a Red Cross flag draped across the vessel, he and the survivors they were carrying were attacked by an American B-24.
What happened to the survivors along with the response of the German Navy is elaborated on by Schmitt and the presentation ends with a letter from a relative of one of the casualties, thanking the U-boat commanders for their courageous and honourable behaviour.
This presentation shows how the Allies were breaking the rules of war while the Germans were keeping to their treaties. During the Nuremberg trials this incident was brought up in the hopes of convicting Admiral Doenitz for advising the U-boats not to pick up survivors, but it had the inadvertent effect of exposing the British and Americans for waging unrestricted submarine warfare, itself a possible war crime as it breaks the law of the sea, that any shipwrecked mariners must be rescued, no matter who they are.
Presented by Messerschmitt, Sven Longshanks and Dennis Wise
Axis War Heroes: The Laconia Incident - AWH 122719
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