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Literally worse than Nazi Germany (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eh... Not really. Dontiz' orders to the Uboat arm were that the destruction of enemy vessels was not to be hampered by life saving activities. However, there were Kriegsmarine officers that did go out of their way to help crews of merchant vessels they had sunk. Captain Hans Langsdorff of the Graf Spee was one such officer, although he was a skimmer.

[–] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago

Hans Langsdorff I typed a few names in search for German naval officers that did this in WW2 and found they all served in World War I. I bet it's because there was an honor code among the navies back then like there was within the Air War. (I use code loosely but it was there that's lacking nowadays).