Admiral scheer

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With the defeat of Germany in November 1918, its once-powerful Kaiserliche Marine

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On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying

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