Thirty-seven German sailors were killed in the confrontation and Captain Langsdorff was wounded, along with 57 other of the Graf Spee's men. The Graf Spee was hit more than 30 times by shells ...
A symbol of the German Navy the Graf Spee prowled the South Atlantic hunting and sinking allied merchant vessels before she was crippled and surrounded by a British flotilla in the River Plate.
After three months of wreaking havoc in the Atlantic, the Graf Spee, Germany’s most successful commerce raider, was now cornered in Montevideo’s harbor with no escape. His adherence to prize ...
Die "Admiral Graf Spee" war ebenfalls getroffen worden und zählte 36 Tote und rund 50 Verwundete. Der Kommandant entschloss sich, die uruguayische Hauptstadt Montevideo anzulaufen - sehr zur ...
Die "Admiral Graf Spee" war zu Beginn des Zweiten Weltkrieges im Indischen Ozean und im Südatlantik auf Kaperfahrt und versenkte mehrere britische Frachtschiffe. Im Dezember 1939 lieferte sich ...