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Hans Langsdorff
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1939
September
30
Graf Spee sinks her first ship
On 30 September 1939 the “pocket battleship” Admiral Graf Spee sank the British freighter Clement off the coast of Brazil. Her crew survived.
December
17
The scuttling of the Admiral Graf Spee
On 17 December 1939 Langsdorff had the damaged Admiral Graf Spee blown up off Montevideo. Argentina interned her crew; on 20 December he shot himself.