This Christmas Inge Nedden will honor a father she never knew in a land thousands of miles from her native Germany. Her father, Captain Hans Langsdorff, was the commander of the German battleship Graf ...
Key Point: The loss of the Graf Spee was a blow to the prestige of Hitler’s small but expensive navy. Just before he put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger, the German officer penned a final ...
Here’s What You Need to Remember: In the Battle of the River Plate, psychology counted as much—and perhaps more—than firepower. The British cruisers had taken a beating, but the Royal Navy’s proud ...
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The British trap that forced Graf Spee to scuttle itself at Montevideo
Admiral Graf Spee was built as a German pocket battleship designed to outgun cruisers and outrun heavier warships. At the ...
An Uruguayan worker directs the 2006 salvage of the eagle from the World War II German warship Admiral Graf Spee, in Montevideo. (Marcelo Hernandez/AP) MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — A court in Uruguay ruled ...
Why did Adolf Hitler change the Admiral Graf Spee from a gallant fighting ship into a miserable scuttleship? Naval men pondered many theories last week, as the Spee’s semi-submerged hulk still smoked ...
A man poses with the eagle from the World War II Nazi German battleship the Graf Spee in this archive photo form 2006 – Copyright AFP STRINGER Uruguay has appealed ...
On December 20, 1939, a German naval officer by the name of captain Hans Langsdorff put on his uniform, wrapped himself in a German flag, and shot himself in the head. Just three days earlier, ...
Dawn: Dark enough to strike without giving too much away, light enough to set the victim up in silhouette. It was to be a simple operation. All the Admiral Graf Spec had to do was warn the plodding ...
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