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 ...
December 1939. In the South Atlantic, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee hunts Allied merchant ships with deadly precision. She sinks nine in three months before being cornered at the ...
In the early days of World War II, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee prowled the South Atlantic, striking fear into Allied supply lines. British forces raced to locate and stop this ...
Tricky winds and river currents stymied salvage experts’ repeated attempts Monday to raise a piece of the submerged wreckage of a German battleship scuttled off Uruguay in the opening days of World ...
Key Point: The loss of the Graf Spee was a blow to the prestige of Hitler’s small but expensive navy, for which even the loss of a single heavy warship was significant. Within six months, the Bismarck ...
Oscar-nominated “City of God” DoP Cesar Charlone, who went on to direct “3%,” South America’s first Netflix series, is set to co-direct and serve as cinematographer on “Graf Spee,” a six-part human ...
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 ...
From refugees who arrived in London last week, with additional details flashed from Montevideo, came the story of what happened to 300 seamen and ship’s officers taken from nine vessels captured and ...
All the Latest Game Footage and Images from World of Warships: Admiral Graf Spee Pack Take home the famed German 'pocket battleship' Graf Spee, a skilled Commander for her helm, and a sprinkling of ...