Why did germany use "prize regulations"?

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Originally Posted by avers

hey guys, I've had this question on my mind for a while and I really want an answer. I've read in books and online that German U-boats and ships at the beginning of the war had to abide by the rules of prize. What are the prize regulations and why did Germany use them? When did they stop abiding by them and why did they stop?

Clay Blair: Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted: 1942-1945, Prologue and Chapter One, tells the complete story of what the Prize Regulations were, where they came from, how the KM struggled to live within them, and eventually abandoned them. It would be difficult to do the story justice in a SubSim post.