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.
The Sussex Pledge of 1916 was a promise from the Germans. It was intended to stop civilian deaths during the First World War.
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Germany made the Arabic Pledge on September 18, 1915 and followed it with the Sussex Pledge on May 14, 1916. Both related to the sinking of merchant ships carrying US American citizens by German U-Boats during World War I and both expressed an intent by the Germans not to harm American citizens without ample warning.
The Sussex pledge was an agreement between the U.S and Germany. Germany agreed not to sink merchant vessels without warning or without assuring the passengers safety.
The Lusitania was a cruise ship full of Americans that was accidentally sunk by the Germans in WW1, and was the main cause of American involvement in WW1. When Germany helped to keep the U.S. out of the war by eventually promising not to sink any more passenger ships, but then Germany violated that by sinking unarmed French passenger ship Sussex. Then again Germany declared and promised not to sink unarmed ships, the promise was called Sussex Pledge.
The Sussex Pledge of 1916 was a promise from the Germans. It was intended to stop civilian deaths during the First World War.
by signing the sussex pledge
sussex pledge
Germany made the Arabic Pledge on September 18, 1915 and followed it with the Sussex Pledge on May 14, 1916. Both related to the sinking of merchant ships carrying US American citizens by German U-Boats during World War I and both expressed an intent by the Germans not to harm American citizens without ample warning.
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February 1, 1917
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The Sussex Pledge was made by Germany after the US threatened to cancel diplomatic relations with Germany after Germany sunk a French channel ferry, Sussex, during WWI. The pledge stated that German submarines would not target passenger ships or merchant ships unless the presence of weapons had been established.
The Sussex pledge was an agreement between the U.S and Germany. Germany agreed not to sink merchant vessels without warning or without assuring the passengers safety.
by avoiding sinking of US vessels by German submarines............... but, after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Germany declared was on the U.S.
Sussex Pledge