Admiral Graf Spee
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December 20, 1939: Front page of El Pampero, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

(Image courtesy of Hugo R. Sochi)

 

December 22, 1939: Front page of the Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia covered the funeral of Kapitän zur See Hans W. Langsdorff.

 

December 24, 1939: Not a front page, but this full page story was published in the San Antonio Light, San Antonio, Texas.

 

December 30, 1958: Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California an interview with gunnery officer Friedrich Powell Rasenak, also not a front page, but this shows that twenty years later, even after all of the events of World War II had been learned, the Admiral Graf Spee story was still of interest to the American public.

 



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