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I do not know whether the sinkings of Hosptital ships was deliberate or not. I rather suspect that after unrestricted submarine warfare was declared they were deliberate. What was far worse was the way survivors were treated. In one case it is claimed that a U boat sailed among life boats swamping them with its wake. In another two cases it is claimed that survivors were lined up on the U boat deck and the boat submerged with them still on deck.

Why unrestricted submarine warfare? The admiralty ordered merchant ships to ram uboats. Merchant ships were armed, making it difficult for a U blao to stop a merchant man. Q ships and the tactic of British ships to fly neutral and specifically US flags.

Russian atrocities by the Russians begn with the Russisn invasion of East Prussia by Rennenkampf and Samsonov. Civilians were raped, killed and injured by the invading Russians.

War is a nasty business. Every counry has skeletons in its closet. They don't need to be enumerated.