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Re: Dying at sea-- and rescue.

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*At least in the Atlantic, there was a very large amount of shipping traffic in defined "lanes." This made the chances of rescue fairly good if you were in a lifeboat. Obviously, if you were in the water in the North Atlantic, hypothermia would finish you in an hour or less.*
Precisely, and the German wolf-packs knew where those routes were, thus sinking millions of tons of cargo as well as thousands of people while waiting for them along the convoy tracks.
Books I found interesting about this subject were Valentin Pikul's "Requiem for the caravan # PQ17" and a book by an American author, whose name I forgot, titled "Convoy".
Evidently you picture the U-boats as sort of samurai warriors, thus providing examples of gracious warfare on their part, whereas there were soldiers who did their duty without stooping to sadism(and that line is so thin) and henchmen on both sides.
Do you know who captain Marinesco was? Wilhelm Gustlov tragedy of 1944; 6000 on board, 1200 survivors?

Ask any German WWII vet about who gassed people in the camps and burned whole villages in Belorussia, and he will most likely answer - "It was all SS' doing."

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