German naval deserters shot by Kriegsmarine after WW2
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:10 am
Hello all,
I remember reading a case where there were two German naval deserters who deserted from Kriegsmarine in early May 1945 and surrendered to the Canadian military authorities. However, Doenitz actually requested the Canadian military authorities (I believed during the week long Flensburg Government) to tried them by a naval kriegsgericht per German military regulations. As a result, both of them were found guilty and sentenced to death. The sentence were carried in the same month by a firing squad composed of Kriegsmarine POW personnel.
(There is a similar fictional scene in the movie Black Book, where SD Haupsturmfuehrer Muntze, who was initially detained by the Canadian military authorities, who was executed by a firing squad of German POWs when the Obergruppenfuehrer Kaurtner demanded the Canadian allow German military regulations to hand Muntze a death sentence)
Does anyone had anymore information of this case? What is the reaction of the Canadian military authorities?
Also, I read elsewhere that the Kriegsmarine naval search parties (consisted of Marinekustenpolizei) earned the sobriquet "Blue SS" for seemingly to shoot real or perceived naval deserters even without a fliegende sondergericht. There is also a case when a group of naval seaman were shot at the bridge of a minesweeper for refusing to obey the orders of the captain who wanted to return to Hela peninsula to rescue several trapped soldiers
Panzermahn
I remember reading a case where there were two German naval deserters who deserted from Kriegsmarine in early May 1945 and surrendered to the Canadian military authorities. However, Doenitz actually requested the Canadian military authorities (I believed during the week long Flensburg Government) to tried them by a naval kriegsgericht per German military regulations. As a result, both of them were found guilty and sentenced to death. The sentence were carried in the same month by a firing squad composed of Kriegsmarine POW personnel.
(There is a similar fictional scene in the movie Black Book, where SD Haupsturmfuehrer Muntze, who was initially detained by the Canadian military authorities, who was executed by a firing squad of German POWs when the Obergruppenfuehrer Kaurtner demanded the Canadian allow German military regulations to hand Muntze a death sentence)
Does anyone had anymore information of this case? What is the reaction of the Canadian military authorities?
Also, I read elsewhere that the Kriegsmarine naval search parties (consisted of Marinekustenpolizei) earned the sobriquet "Blue SS" for seemingly to shoot real or perceived naval deserters even without a fliegende sondergericht. There is also a case when a group of naval seaman were shot at the bridge of a minesweeper for refusing to obey the orders of the captain who wanted to return to Hela peninsula to rescue several trapped soldiers
Panzermahn