GODT: Between the Normandy invasion area and the British Isles. Commander, U-boats, then had investigations made by the competent department as to whether hospital traffic was really as heavy as alleged in these reports. That was found to be the case.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: What do you mean by that?
GODT: It means that the number of hospital ships reported corresponded to the estimated number of wounded. After that it was expressly announced that hospital ships were not to be attacked in the future.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Was the strict respect paid to hospital ships at that stage of the war in our own interests?
GODT: At that time we only had hospital ships in the Baltic where the Geneva Convention was not recognized by the other side; so we had no particular interest in respecting hospital ships.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Do you know of any case of an enemy hospital ship being sunk by a German U-boat during this war?
GODT: No.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Did it happen the other way round?
GODT: The German hospital ship Tübingen was, I think, sunk by British aircraft in the Mediterranean.
FLOTTENRICHTER KRANZBÜHLER: Presumably because of mistaken identity?