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Admiral Graf Spee

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1939

December

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- Key eventThe Battle of the River PlateOn 13 December 1939 three British cruisers attacked the “pocket battleship” Admiral Graf Spee off the River Plate and forced her into Montevideo.
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- The scuttling of the Admiral Graf SpeeOn 17 December 1939 Langsdorff had the damaged Admiral Graf Spee blown up off Montevideo. Argentina interned her crew; on 20 December he shot himself.

1940

February

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- The Altmark incidentOn 16 February 1940 the destroyer HMS Cossack entered Norway’s Jøssingfjord and freed 299 British prisoners from the German supply ship Altmark.