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Originally Posted by Randomizer
Edit: I suspect that if you look at the actual rules under which the Red Cross operated in WW2 you will find that no armed ships could legally fly the Red Cross under any circumstances. Also a look at the transcipts from Nuremburg fail to show any such declarations by Doenitz regarding the Geneva Convention and the Laconia affair. But I might have missed it.
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On uboat.net/forums there was a nice exploration on this very topic. Worth reading if this interests you.