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Originally Posted by andy_311
Am just curious say for example a destroyer encounters a hospital ship in this game I doubt if an AI destroyer would have any quams in putting couple of dozen shells into her and sink her.
Wasn't there a case that occured in the baltic in wwII when aussian sub took one out the loss of life was higher than the Titanic disaster (I could be wrong)
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You might refer to the Wilhelm Gustloff, a German cruise liner which was converted into a hospital ship and also took on thousands or refugees who were fleeing from the advancing Russian Army. A Russian sub sank the ship and a few days later sank another large refugee ship called "Steuben". Both ships didn't fly the red cross as far as I know, however it was clear that it wasn't a military operation but a rescue mission.
The overall loss of life is estimated to be over 10.000 people. Most of them women and children. A third refugee ship was sunk a few days later with another 7.000 casualties. Those sinkings can be considered one of the largest war crimes committed in WW2.
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Just because It's got the red cross emblems on it doesn't mean it's carrying injured personnel
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Well normally the Red Cross was generally not misused to smuggle material or personnel or protect some operation from being attacked. If a country would've done that on a large scale, the enemy surely wouldn't have hesitated to attack anything even when showing a red cross.
However a more or less common practice was to OPENLY store war material near field hospitals and red cross units in order to prevent the enemy from attacking it. The Americans did that as well as the Germans in WW2.