SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article examines the post-war trials of three German naval officers in connection with the Laconia order of 1942. It sets their behaviour, and the order, in the context of maritime custom and the practices of the German submarine arm between 1939 and 1945. It establishes linkages between the three trials and highlights the British Admiralty's faltering pursuit of the German submarine arm over the supposed practice of murdering shipwreck survivors from Allied vessels.
Publication Date
2017-04-11
Publication Title
SOLON Law, Crime and History
Volume
1
Issue
1
First Page
16
Last Page
34
ISSN
2045-9238
Deposit Date
March 2017
Embargo Period
2024-09-27
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Bennett, G. H.
(2017)
"The 1942 Laconia Order, The Murder of Shipwrecked Survivors and the Allied Pursuit of Justice 1945-46,"
SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective): Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/solon/vol1/iss1/3
