Langsdorff blew up his own ship Dec. 17 and eventually committed suicide in Buenos Aires. The Graf Spee's wreckage has for decades been an attraction off the coast of Montevideo when downspouts ...

The German navy pocket battleship Graf von Spee took refuge in the port of Montevideo in December 1939 chased by three Royal Navy vessels. However Uruguayan authorities of the time gave the vessel ...

Soon after the outbreak of World War II, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, one of the fastest and most modern warships in the world, began to cut some dangerous gaps into the vital ...

In this Nazi propaganda broadcast, Lord Haw-Haw reports that British cruiser HMS Exeter has "run aground" off the Falklands after an encounter with German battleship Graf Spee in the coastal ...

It had been affixed to the front of the Admiral Graf Spee Nazi warship, which was scuttled by British ships in a Montevideo harbor in December 1939. After its recovery, the eagle was briefly shown ...

The Royal Navy despatched ships from the North Sea down to the ... whilst also being reminded of the huge waste of life," Wilhelm Graf von Spee said. "As a family we lost a father and his two ...