Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Forgotten American War Crime: The Laconia Incident" video.

  1. Attacking lifeboats is a war crime. It's simple as that. It's not like it's a war crime only if you have perfect information about everything or you are not in a hurry. This luxury had never been applied to Axis' men.
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  2. Yeah, ignoring all the facts and depicting a scenario of pure fantasy this is "not controversial at all".
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  3. So they can kill whoever they want?
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  4. Please. For how much annoying it was that the Allies swept this dirt under the carpet, reality is that, for the Allies, those were the exception to a war generally fought by the rules. For the Germans, systematic war crimes were their policy.
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  5. Attacking lifeboats is a war crime. It's simple as that. In reality the video, annoyngly, did WAY too much to justify the bomber's crew. It's not like it's a war crime only if you have perfect information about everything or you are not in a hurry. This luxury had never bee applied to Axis' men actions. They saw the lifeboats and bombed them. That's all that's needed to call it a war crime.
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  6. Attacking lifeboats is a war crime. It's as simple as that. "what could become of this ocean if someone..." is not an argument. The "Laconia incident" happened after THREE YEARS of war, where what you feared didn't happen, and the submarine crews that helped survivors simply helped survivors.
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  7. No, the Germans sank an enemy escort cruiser, and the Americans sank two lifeboats. The Americans are the war criminals.
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  8.  @kichigaisensei  It was an armed escort cruiser, not a liner. Attacking armed enemy ships is not a war crime, whoever they transport. Attacking lifeboats instead is a war crime. It's not that difficult, really.
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  9. The Laconia was an armed escort cruiser, so a valid target by any mean. Most of the survivors were NOT POW from an allied nation. Most of the POW from the allied nation sunk with the ship due to the actions of the Allied survivors, and much of the ones that survived had been already taken by the Italian sub Comandante Cappellini when the U-156 had been attacked. It had been quite admirable, hearing how the POW from an allied nation had been treated on board of the Laconia, that Hartenstein had not turned the AA machine guns and made short work of the Allied ones.
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  10. Attacking lifeboats is a war crime. It's simple as that. It's not like it's a war crime only if you have perfect information about everything or you are not in a hurry.
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  11. So following orders is a justification, if are the Americans doing that? Because for the Germans, last time I checked, it didn't work like that. Attacking lifeboats is a war crime. It's simple as that. It's not like it's a war crime only if you have perfect information about everything or you are not in a hurry. This luxury had never been applied to Axis' men.
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  12. Then, you kill the survivors?
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  13. And so were all abroad of the Laconia and the life boats.
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  14. Not a difficult call at all. Bombing lifeboats is a war crime. You can justify anything with the "greater good", or fear of worst consequences if you didn't commit the crime.
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  15. Attacking lifeboats is a war crime. Attacking a perfectly seaworthy and armed enemy escort cruiser is not a war crime.
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