Mutiny participants at minesweeper m612

[Don D.]

Wasn't Muntiny at Sea punishable by death back then?

[Napalm]

havnet a clue Don, suppose it depends on orders of the day, and they made up orders of the day as they went along, just ask Jack Sparrow...LOL

[VtwinVince]

Reede is the German word for a wharf.

[PlaceOfBayonets]

Depends, was it war time or not? If hostilities were at an end so was any operations such as rescue.

W.

[Don D.]

I don't think wartime has anything to do with it.

[PlaceOfBayonets]

I was just going off what the site said. It said German forces surrendered May 5th and the mutiny incident took place May 7th. A quick check of Wikipedia has German forces surrendering as early as May 1st with Hitler dead already a few days.

As eluded to in my earlier post Germany did not surrender all at once, it's armies surrdered one army or force at a time. That was my gut feeling but tonight confrmed by Wikipedia. By may 7th Most or major parts of German forces had surrendered. It's understandable that German forces on the Eastern Fronts would hold out as long as possible.

So Obviously there is some gray area. The Captain wanted to sail his boat for a rescue. Not everyone wanted to go. Had forces not been surrendering I am sure those sailors would have kept following orders till death if need be.

The question now in my mind is not weather or not the war was over or if the Captain was in charge but rather by that point did they have any obligation to follow orders? Or at what point was a German military man exepmt from following orders in a military operation? At what point was the captain going above his authority to issue such an order?
For some of you it's a simple matter. For me I was not there. I won't judge the mutiny. They could have made a rescue and they could have ended up in Soviet Captivity. Maybe that was their motive for the mutiny. I guess it all deprnds on how much of a chance they had at doing anything positive for their comrads in trapped pockets of resistance.

Being the war was ending I think the Captain should have set 10 adrift in a dingy and maybe shot the ring leader but that's just me.

W.