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The Sussex pledge was wrote to mean that Germans could not invade foreign ships with that countrys citizens aboard.

Hitler did exactly that because the ship held Jews. So to kill them he sank their ship.

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The Sussex Pledge was a pact between Germany and the United States in 1916 during World War I. Germany broke the Pledge by resuming unrestricted submarine warfare.

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