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Nazi Germany Once Tried to Build an Aircraft Carrier. It Didn’t End Well.
Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider ...
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The Nazi eagle of battleship Graf von Spee to become a dove of peace
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 ...
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Uruguay’s president scuttles plan to turn giant Nazi eagle into a peace dove after criticism
Another Argentine proposed a different plan for the Nazi eagle. “The eagle on the Graf Spee must not be adulterated or destroyed,” tweeted Carlos Maslaton, an attorney and political liberal ...
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Nazi Germany Once Tried to Build an Aircraft Carrier. It Didn’t End Well.
This was the Graf Zeppelin—named for Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, best known for developing the eponymous airship. The ship emerged following a period of German naval resurgence after the ...