Captain Langsdorff eventually commited suicide in Buenos Aires The 7-ton anchor which once belonged to the Reichsmarine's Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee sank off the coast of Montevideo in ...
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The Trap that Caught Hitler's Most Secret BattleshipCaptain Hans Langsdorff faced an impossible choice—fight or surrender. After three months of wreaking havoc in the Atlantic, the Graf Spee, Germany’s most successful commerce raider, was now cornered ...
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How Hitler's Pocket Battleship Ended Up off the Coast of South AmericaThe first naval battle of World War II didn’t take place in Europe, but in the South Atlantic, near Argentina and Uruguay. On December 13, 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee faced ...
The Graf Spee was sunk by her captain off the port of Montevideo in December of 1939 to avoid seizure by British cruisers after the Battle of the River Plate in World War II. Categories: Politics ...
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