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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...