Transfer of Submarines and Order to Kill Survivors of Merchant Ships

States that in the opening statement of the Atrocities Phase, no connection was made between the transfer of two submarines to Japan and the adoption of a policy of killing survivors of merchant vessels. Steiner then outlines how the subject was introduced during OSHIMA's interrogation on 1 February 1946, that OSHIMA later said he had "a failure of memory and misunderstanding of the interpreter" during the February interrogation, and finally, that "Hitler told him about his order to kill survivors in January 1942 but that neither Hitler nor Ribbentrop mentioned the matter in connection with the transfer of the submarines in March 1943."