Emotions ran high then, I am inclined to believe the Brits considered the killings business best not left unfinished. The poverty era Ports were probably on the take at both ends. Salazar collected a neutrality bounty, we know that, and the German captains kept the sausage and beer flowing in port. Do visit the Vasco tombstones.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Highly improbable that the sunken ships’ captains would have been executed on neutral Portuguese territory.
Portuguese authorities would have never dared do it (for fear of German reprisals) and the British men who scuttled the ships off Mormugao would not have killed enemy personnel who were not an imminent physical danger to them on neutral space. Most probably they would have quietly melted away on a neutral ship back to a friendly port and eventually to Germany, or not, knowing a court martial awaited. Roland. Toronto. > The captains disappeared immediately after the sinking. The Noronhas > believed that they were executed behind a wall the same night. > > Joe
