The nearly 350 kilo eagle with a swastika held in its claws was part of the stern of the German “pocket battleship” Admiral Graf Spee that was sunk off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939 ...

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 ...

The first naval battle of World War II didn’t take place in Europe, but in the South Atlantic, near Argentina and Uruguay. On December 13, 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee faced ...

Captain Hans Langsdorff faced an impossible choice—fight or surrender. After three months of wreaking havoc in the Atlantic, the Graf Spee, Germany’s most successful commerce raider, was now cornered ...

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 small but immensely powerful Admiral Graf Spee was the pride of Hitler's naval fleet. Restricted to a limited size due to the impositions of the Treaty of Versailles, this 'pocket battleship ...

(JTA) — Uruguay’s president has withdrawn a proposal to transform a swastika-emblazoned 800-pound bronze eagle from a sunken Nazi ship into ... of the Admiral Graf Spee in 2006.