War crime precedent

During World War 2, the German submarine U-852 sank the Greek merchant ship Peleus, after which the U-boat commander ordered the killing of the helpless survivors. At the war’s end the U-boat commander and several of his crew members involved in the killings were tried as war criminals. Some were executed and some were imprisoned.

The killing of the helpless survivors of a sunken ship was confirmed as a war crime.

Kirk Garanflo

Hoffman Estates