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

Authors

Navy High Command, and/or Navy administration (general)

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)

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 (IMT)