Was the Kriegsmarine accused of any war crimes? Or did it conduct itself "honorably" throughout the war?
Which was the "cleanest" German military branch? Can the Kriegsmarine or the Luftwaffe be said to have "dindu nuffin" or did they do fucked up things as well?
>What is unrestricted submarine warfare
that shit is pretty much a war crime of its own
The Luftwaffe pioneered terror bombing, which Bomber Harris memes aside is absolutely a war crime
Well, they murdered the entire surviving crew of the HMAS Sydney for starters.
The Royal Navy's notoriety has lasted for centuries, historically composed of press-gangs, disregarding neutral shipping (with roots in privateering), indiscriminate mining of sea lanes (itself a war crime), terror bombardment of coastal towns (see the siege of Montreal), and too many atrocities to count. It was the Royal Navy and Marines which burned Washington to the ground.
The Kriegsmarine on the other hand lasted for a mere several decades, and is infamous only for conduct during its david and goliath struggle with the aforementioned Royal Navy, and only after a policy of restraint was abandoned after the RN deliberately exploited this restraint with its Q-Ship decoys, and in the face of a genocidal policy of mass starvation which the Royal Navy had employed in virtually every war it ever fought and was pursuing with unashamed vigor from the outset of hostilities.
>acts like burning DC to the ground was something bad
Admirals Donitz and Raeder were brought to Nuremberg on the crimes of unrestricted warfare and enacting the the Laconia Order. Defense pointed out that the Laconia Order was enacted because the USAAF attacked a U-boat coordinating a recovery and rescue effort. Then Chester Nimitz stepped in and testified that everything Donitz ordered, he did the exact same and worse to the Japanese. War crimes charges were then reduced and no war crimes cases were carried out against Luftwaffe officers as the defense would easily be able to cite what Men like Harris and LeMay did as exceeding anything they they did,
>ship crew dies in combat
>THEY WERE MURDERED FILTHY KRAUTS
More like the gaysmarine because they gay lmao
>The Kriegsmarine on the other hand lasted for a mere several decades,
Kriegsmarine lasted for exactly one decade.
Hi Hans.
Why should they accused of warcrimes to begin with? Why should the German Wehrmacht be accused of wrong doings when they actually didn't doing anything wrong. Maybe the SS from time to time, but for real, you Soros funded shills, they have been demonized since WWII and yet you continue to attack them for things they didn't even do.
The only thing they did wrong was lose.
t. fresh off the /pol/ boat
Even juicier.
Lol, i'm just in it to fuck the english, the kaiser seems like a cool dude though
>I actually laughed at this
Is like being 12 again
Kriegsmarine committed numerous war crimes, everyone knows around 7 million Hebrews were intentionally drowned on the bottom of the Norwegian trench.
Came here to say unrestricted submarine warfare but then I saw these brave kekistanis and changed my mind. Nimitz did defend Donitz saying that unrestricted sub warfare was more than justified by the nature of the conflict. Nimitz said he would have done the same thing in that position.
LeMay feared that if the United States were to lose, history would remember him as one of the world's greatest war criminals.
>bet jewish refugee on neutral ship
>hits anglo sea mine under bow
>lost with all souls
Fact's a fact, bad guys won WW2.
The worst crime that any military force can commit is to end up on the losing side of a war. The only true "rule" of war is that you must win.
>luftwaffe has one plane drop a bomb by mistake after lfying of course
>RAF responds by a week of civilian bombings in Berlin
>Luftwaffe pioneered terror bombing
wew lad.
>What is Guernica
>What is Rotterdam
>What is Warsaw
Fucking this. Anyone who says otherwise is a retard. Can anyone argue the Red Army didn't commit far worse war crimes than the Wehrmacht? Can anyone argue if the Wehrmacht had dropped a nuke on two civilian cities, they wouldn't have been charged for it at Nurenberg?
Whatever bad thing you find that the wehrmacht did, the allies did it ten times as much.
Also belgrade after it was declared an open city
no one disputes how fucked up Stalin was even though he won
>war
>honorable
Kill yourself you petite bourgeois delusional moralist.
t. goebbels
>Can anyone argue the Red Army didn't commit far worse war crimes than the Wehrmacht?
Uh, yeah.
>Can anyone argue the Red Army didn't commit far worse war crimes than the Wehrmacht?
Many people.
this!
>Can anyone argue the Red Army didn't commit far worse war crimes than the Wehrmacht?
Yes, it's actually pretty easy.
Hint: One side went to war with the intention of committing a campaign of genocide against the other.
>forgetting that Dönitz was acquitted of that at Nuremberg because the allies did the same thing
Please lurk more newfriend
I'm fairly certain the British were already practising terror bombing in their colonies during the inter-war period though.
Fuck off kid. There was an entire massive detachment of the Royal Navy solely dedicated to hunting down American ships, searching them for slaves and freeing them. They saved hundreds of thousands, if not millions, from slavery in the Americas in just a few decades.
>unit dedicated solely to practicing piracy against americans
>something to be proud of
As expected of Anglos, as soon as one of their colonies breaks free they'll start an undeclared war against them.
The Germans did the exact same fucking thing by stopping the Arabic slave trade in East Africa.
Stop defending Krauts. You know that it was them who invented terror bombing and who provoked Anglos to do the same. Krauts got exactly what they deserved.
>You know that it was them who invented terror bombing
Sure, if you ignore RAF's terror bombing campaign against Iraqis during 1920s, Royal Navy's terror bombardment against Copenhagen and Montreal, etc. or are in other words anglo trying to convince people that your ancestors were good boys who did nuffin wrong.
>Can anyone argue the Red Army didn't commit far worse war crimes than the Wehrmacht?
Yes
>Which was the "cleanest" German military branch?
The Waffen SS
But wasn't it Krauts bombing cities during the Great War? Isn't this where it started?
Also, bombing guerillas isn't the same as bombing cities, is it.
It's the same shit. Terror attacks against civilians.
>war crimes
Whoever came up with this bullshit should be thrown into a pit of hungry rodents.
>unrestricted
>submarine
>warfare
this
they were too incompetent to do anything wrong
>Bombing armed guerillas who openly attack your soldiers
>Bombing harmless civilians
There's a clear difference
Name one instance of this
Still butthurt that your cruiser got rekt by an armed merchant ship?
>Can anyone argue the Red Army didn't commit far worse war crimes than the Wehrmach
Yes
>Can anyone argue the Red Army didn't commit far worse war crimes than the Wehrmacht?
read a book illiterate wehaboo
>Can anyone argue the Red Army didn't commit far worse war crimes than the Wehrmacht?
The Jews?
Did you fail to mention the part where the Royal Navy hunted down American ships for the sole purpose of enslaving (impressment) the sailors and forcing them to serve and die on RN ships? Limey hipocrisy at its finest. We didn't fight a second war with you just for shits and giggles.
America had been doing the exact same thing in the preceding decades.
>We didn't fight a second war with you just for shits and giggles
You wanted to conquer Canada while Britain was distracted with Napoleon and miserably failed despite holding all the cards.