How Hitler's Pocket Battleship Ended Up off the Coast of South America

The first naval battle of World War II did not occur in the European Theater, but in the South Atlantic Ocean, near the coasts of Argentina and Uruguay.

When the United Kingdom and France declared war on Germany in response to Hitler's invasion of Poland, the Kriegsmarine was so unprepared that its naval arsenal lacked any large-scale warships.

Instead, the German Navy had three modest armored ships that the British nicknamed the Panzerschiff pocket battleships.

One of them was the Admiral Graf Spee, which on December 13, 1939, engaged three powerful British vessels and almost single-handedly cost the Allies their first naval victory...

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