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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 242-HB-6823

Admiral Graf Spee
(German Armored Ship, 1936)

Launching, at Wilhelmshaven, Germany, on 30 June 1934.
Note flags bearing the National Socialist emblem, and stiff-arm salutes being given by most of those present.
Photographed by Hoffman.

Photograph from the Hoffman collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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Image posted 3 August 2006