<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><rec-number>8408</rec-number><ref-type>Case Study </ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Robert Ladenson</style></author></authors><translated-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology</style></author></translated-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Laconia </style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MILITARY</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MILITARY ethics</style></keyword></keywords><taxonomies><taxonomy><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Military Ethics</style></taxonomy><taxonomy><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Military</style></taxonomy></taxonomies><pubtype><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Case Study </style></pubtype><audience-level><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ug</style></audience-level><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1997</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">02/1997</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Laconia.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Laconia was a liner carrying 268 British Servicemen and their families, returning home from prewar stations in the Middle East, and 1,800 Italian prisoners of war during World War II. The laconia was torpedoed and sunk off the west coast of Africa by a German U-boat, whose commander did not know who its passengers were (liners were used extensively by the Allies as troop ships). When Admiral Doenitz, the head of German naval forces, learned of the sinking, and of the identity of the people in the water, he ordered a massive rescue effort involving, initially, a number of other submarines. Italian warships were also asked to hurry to the scene, and the U-boat commander responsible for the sinking radioed in English a general call for help. But the submarines were instead attacked by several Allied planes whose pilots presumably did not know what was going on in the seas below, or did not believe what they were told. As it turned out, the planes did little damage. Nevertheless, Doentiz directed the German commanders to confine their rescue efforts to the Italian prisoners or war. The British soldiers and their families were to be set adrift. Was the Admiral’s command morally justifiable? If so why? If not, why not?</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Case from the March 6, 1997 Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl. Copyright Robert Ladenson, Center for the Study of Ethics at the Illinois Institute of Technology, 1997.</style></notes></record></records></xml>