Unrestricted submarine warfare formed part of the case against Karl Dönitz at Nuremberg. The charge became difficult to isolate as a uniquely German practice. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz stated that American submarines had operated under comparable rules in the Pacific. That evidence did not erase every allegation against Dönitz, but it weakened punishment based specifically on unrestricted submarine warfare. Reciprocity and Allied practice affected the postwar legal treatment of naval operations.
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Why unrestricted submarine warfare complicated the Dönitz case
The unrestricted-submarine-warfare charge against Karl Dönitz was weakened when Admiral Nimitz confirmed that US submarines had followed comparable practices in the Pacific.