On this day in 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee – heavily damaged after the Battle of the River Plate – is scuttled off Montevideo, Uruguay. The captain, Hans Langsdorff, destroys his vessel rather than surrender it to the Allies. He later shoots himself. pic.twitter.com/vUpD91HNaI
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