where about 50 of the Graf Spee's crew members who died in Uruguay are buried. He was 19 when he joined the Graff Spee, first in the engine room and later in the guns' turrets. The battleship was ...

A symbol of the German Navy the Graf Spee prowled the South Atlantic hunting and sinking allied merchant vessels before she was crippled and surrounded by a British flotilla in the River Plate.