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Proposal to authorize U-boats to sink unlighted ships at night without warning in French or British-area waters, noting Raeder's order for this in the English Channel

IMT

Authors

Navy High Command, and/or Navy records (general, orders, war diaries, etc)

Date: 22 September 1939

Literal Title: Extract from document entitled: Demands of F.O. U-boats and military possibilities of carrying them out.

Defendants: Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: C-191

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 193

Document Book No: Prosecution 9 (Doenitz)

Citations: IMT (page 2660), IMT (page 9358), IMT (page 9363), IMT (page 2727), IMT (page 9494)

HLSL Item No.: 452880

Notes:The proposal stated that the sinkings should be justified in the war diary as resulting from a confusion of the ship with an enemy warship.

Trial Issue

Naval warfare, crimes during, and background of (IMT)

Document Summary

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C-191: NAVAL WARFARE, SUBMARINE -- Sinkings without warning: GB191, D-641 -- Doenitz [oral evidence -- oral evidence / NAVAL WARFARE, SUBMARINE -- Sinkings without warning: GB191, D-641 -- Distortion of news -- I-489 / NAVAL WARFARE, SUBMARINE -- Sinkings without warning: GB191, D-641 -- Due to confusion with a warship -- oral evidence / NAVAL WARFARE, SUBMARINE -- German operational zones, Wagner oral evidence -- Confusion with warships / NAVAL WARFARE, SUBMARINE -- Merchant shipping -- Attacks without warning [distortion of news concerning -- distortion of news concerning / NAVAL WARFARE, -- Sinkings without warning: Distortion of news concerning / GENERAL STAFF AND HIGH COMMAND -- Naval warfare -- Sinkings, contrary to the rules of / GENERAL STAFF AND HIGH COMMAND -- -+¢ W-211, 216, 268, 276; XIII259, 357, 456, 483, 490, 514, 538; XIV-199, 208; XVITII-326, 338 [falsification of logbook in case of -- Sinkings without warning -- distortion of news concerning / NAVAL TREATIES -- concerning