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 ...

The Germans' shelling proved accurate throughout - something that surprised British naval officers. At 6.23AM, splinters from ...

For three months in 1939, the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee attacked and disappeared like a ghost. Nine British merchant vessels vanished in the South Atlantic. No survivors, no wreckage, just ...

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 ...

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 would join ...

The eagle was recovered in 2006 from the Nazi ship 'Admiral Graf Spee,' after almost seven decades underwater - Copyright POOL/AFP Angelos TZORTZINIS The eagle was ...

MONTEVIDEO -- I watched from the vantage point of an airplane while explosions wrecked the doomed German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and she sank in the estuary of the river Plate. The pilot ...

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 ...

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 ...