Helmut Brümmer-Patzig [SEP] conflict
Helmut Brümmer-Patzig
Helmut Patzig, also known as Helmut Brümmer-Patzig (26 October 1890 – 11 March 1984) was a German U-boat commander in the Kaiserliche Marine in World War I, and the Kriegsmarine in World War II. He was captain of , the vessel that sank a Canadian hospital ship, , in 1918. Patzig evaded conviction for the war crime at the Leipzig War Crimes Trials in 1921 because he fled German jurisdiction. During the Second World War he returned to naval service, serving as
Castle" was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine on 27 June 1918. Firing at a hospital ship was against international law and standing orders of the Imperial German Navy. The captain of "U-86", Helmut Brümmer-Patzig, sought to destroy the evidence of torpedoing the ship. When the crew, including nurses, took to the lifeboats, "U-86" surfaced, ran down all but one of the lifeboats and machine-gunned many of the survivors.
Only 24 people in one surviving lifeboat survived. They