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Atrocity on the Atlantic
Nate Hendley
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
How a German submarine sank a Canadian military hospital ship during the First World War and sparked outrage.
On the evening of June 27, 1918, the
Llandovery Castle — an unarmed, clearly marked hospital ship used by the Canadian military — was torpedoed off the Irish Coast by U-Boat 86, a German submarine.
Sinking hospital ships violated international law. To conceal his actions, the U-86 commander had the submarine deck guns fire on survivors. One lifeboat escaped with witnesses to the atrocity. Global outrage over the attack ensued.
The sinking of the
Llandovery Castle was adjudicated at the Leipzig War Crimes Trials, an attempt to establish justice after hostilities ceased. The
Llandovery Castle case resulted in a historic legal precedent that guided subsequent war crime prosecutions, including the Nuremberg Trials.
Atrocity on the Atlantic explores the
Llandovery Castle sinking, the people impacted by the attack, and the reasons why this wartime atrocity was largely forgotten.
Kundenbewertungen
Canadian Army, World War One, international law, Nursing Sisters, Royal Navy, Geneva Conventions, war crimes, law of nations, shipwrecked, historic legal precedent, atrocity, torpedoed, lifeboat, Leipzig War Crimes Trials, submarine warfare, obeying orders, hospital ship, Hague Conventions, Uboats, superior orders defense, sinking, criminal culpability for war crimes, Nuremberg Trials, Canadian Army Medical Corps, First World War, Canada, ethics, murder on the high seas