5-23 In Search Of... The Lusitania (Part 1 of 2)

Season 5 Episode 23 Part 1

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[MrPokemonlover926]

(at 5:02)THATS TITANIC

[Darkon711]

@FrenchSupreme The Germans were wrong for attacking the Lusitania, period. If it was a true-blue cargo ship or part of a convoy, that would've been a different story, but their unrestricted submarine warfare crossed a line, and they paid the penalty for it.

Nice to see I got your panties all in a knot, though. You're wrong about this, whichever way you slice it. You might as well just surrender while you still have the chance. You'd be singing a different tune if it were a smelly French ship.

[Darkon711]

What I've said stands. What's worse? Carrying contraband on a civilian ship, or attacking said civilian ship, killing over a thousand people? Certain people with moral defects might try to argue about this, but for anyone sensible, the decision is clear. What kind of monster would attack a sip carrying people who AREN'T enemy combatants? As I said, he didn't even know it was carrying anything illegal, but that didn't stop him from attacking it anyways. You DON'T do that.

[FrenchSupreme]

@Darkon711 ;) I´m from Montana, you pricking racist. And yes, we do eat cheese...

But thank you for your opinion. Thank God it´s just been a "bad decision" to transport ammo on a civil liner. I see, the US is finally learning something from a war. Also: Churchill is a saint, right...? But what bunch of people is sightseeing thru a battlezone without having anything to do with it? F***, the Germans even advertised! What else can be done..?

Au revoirs

[Darkon711]

@FrenchSupreme Ethical questions aside, the Germans didn't even know the Lusitania was carrying war materials until AFTER they sank it. From their perspective, it was simply an unarmed passenger ship, and yet they STILL went after it.

[Darkon711]

@FrenchSupreme Of course some cheese-eating surrender monkey would be looking for any way possible to bash the US.

Listen here. The UK/US were wrong for carrying munitions and other contraband aboard a passenger liner. Fact. Legally speaking, the Germans did have every right to attack and sink the ship, but from an ethical standpoint they crossed a very dangerous line. They wiped out a large group of people who didn't have anything to do with the war aside from being on the wrong side, if that.

[FrenchSupreme]

Unfortunitely Leonard neglected to mention any ship from an neutral country carrying weapons & ammo to a country at war is a war crime / act of war, therefore the Germans had any right to attack it. But then again, US viewers wouldn´t have liked that truth...

[miniwidge]

Amazing how many people are referring to WWII and the provocation of US into it through the sinking of this ship. It is in no way related since the Lusitania was sunk in 1915. The documentary is talking about WWI.

[SouthwestRanger]

The Best Source On This Is Colin Simpson's THE LUSITANIA which proves that 1) The Ship Was Registered As An Auxiliary Cruiser of the Royal Navy Not A Passenger Liner 2) The Ship Had Munitions Aboard Which Led To Her Fast Sinking By One Torpedo 3) Canadian Soldiers were aboard as passengers...Ergo she was a LEGITIMATE Target Of War

[Gigrantula58]

@freedomseaker1 Same thing in America with Roosevelt sending all battleships to Pearl Harbor. The sinking of the Lusitania did provoke outrage in America, but I believe that it was the "Zimmerman Letter" sent from Germany promising Mexico the southwest U.S. back to Mexican control that the U.S. finally found the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back. Governments are still pulling this crap to this day, look at Iraq!