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Order for U-boat operations, instructing them not to assist survivors of ships they have sunk ("We must be harsh in this war.")
IMT
Authors
Karl Doenitz (admiral; submarine commander (1939-430; naval commander (1943-45))
Karl Doenitz
German admiral, supreme commander of the Navy, head of state and convicted war criminal (1891-1980)
- Born: 1891-09-16 (Grünau) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Kingdom of Prussia)
- Died: 1980-12-22 1980-12-24 (Aumühle) (country: West Germany; located in the administrative territorial entity: Schleswig-Holstein)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: autobiographer; military officer; politician; soldier (period: 1910-01-01 through 1918-01-01, 1920-01-01 through 1945-01-01)
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Nuremberg trials (charge: war crime, war of aggression; defender: Otto Kranzbühler; role: defendant)
- Military rank: Admiral (period: 1942-03-14 through 1943-01-30); Commodore (period: 1939-01-28 through 1939-10-01); Fregattenkapitän (period: 1933-10-01 through 1935-10-01); Fähnrich zur See (period: 1911-04-15 through 1913-09-27)
- Military branch: German Navy; Imperial German Navy (since: 1910-04-01); Kriegsmarine (since: 1935-06-01)
Date: 1940
Literal Title: Extract from Befehlshaber der U-Boote's Secret Standing Order No. 154, Signed Do[e]nitz
Defendant: Karl Doenitz
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: D-642
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 196
Document Book No: Prosecution 9 (Doenitz)
Citations: IMT (page 2663), IMT (page 9376)
HLSL Item No.: 452883
Notes:According to statements in the transcript (and the Blue Set, vol. 35, p. 254), the order was issued during or prior to May 1940.
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