Jack Martinez

The Graf Spree Story

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The Graf Spree Story

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Introduction

The first casualties of war are Education and order. When Hitler took
power in Germany in 1933, he immediately displaced all professional
soldiers and trained military personnel for a host of civilian fanatics
that used to gather scientific books on street piles to burn them
publicly. The Nazi party customarily promoted people to their degree of
incompetence. No one knows how or why a civilized nation, with so
much intellectual talent and the promise of a young generation, deeply
fell for the convincing rhetoric of this man. Many high ranking officers
were humiliated and even demoted, and some were transferred from
the Ministry of Defense to the Ministry of the Interior for instance, or,
became simple “paper pushers” with a low profile administrative job,
such is the case of the man in the story you are about to learn. Later
on, during the full all out war, these bad decisions came out to the
light of day. The Second World War was personally conducted by
Hitler, himself a low ranking soldier in the German Army during WWI
and, his venturing campaign had the face of disaster since the very
start. Young, promissory lives were in some cases led by incompetent
superiors that had no idea about the rules and art of war. At the
Nuremberg trials, the entire world saw the horrors of a war that was
waged by amateurs. There are exceptions to the rule though; in this e-
book I present to you the real story of one of those German officers
that understood war in all its facets.

Capt. Hans W. Langsdorff

A GENTLEMAN WARRIOR

Let me introduce myself, please. My name is Captain Hans W.

Langsdorff and I was a German Navy officer during WWII. I could have
been a prominent lawyer in my native land, like Dr.Ludwin Langsdorff,
my father; instead, I enrolled in the famous Kiel Naval Academy in
1912 to pursue a military career. Elizabeth Steinmetz, that was my
mother’s name had taught me from a young age to respect human
feelings and life, according to Lutheran tradition, and this teaching I
would carry on for the rest of my days. My family lived in Dusseldorff,
near another famous family, the Graf Spee’s. Vice-Admiral Maximilian
Graf Von Spee’s was the patriarch and a national hero of the German
Empire, who had fought 25 years earlier against the British Royal Navy
at the Falkland Islands on December 8, 1914. Little did I know that the
ship I was to command would carry the name of Admiral Graf Spee, in
honor of that German war hero, and the future would place me at a
final rendezvous with destiny in the…

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The Battleship Graf Spee showing her array of advanced weaponry

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Author’s Bio

2003-Cambridge University - U.K. English Proficiency Certification -

Council of Europe and UK National Qualifications Framework. English
Teaching Credentials in Europe.

2000-Economics For Business - Cornell University, New York, USA.

2000-Honor and Study Achievement Certificate -Cornell University,

N.Y., USA.

1999-Business Management Professional Certificate - Cornell

University, N.Y., USA.
1976-Bio-Chemistry and Bio-Physics Sciences; completed studies at
the Northeastern University, Argentina.

1975-Spanish Language Teaching Credentials, Avellaneda Superior

School, Argentina.

Languages Fluently Spoken: English, Spanish, Portuguese.

I write about modern Economics; the environment, wildlife, History,

Geology, Technology, The U.S. National Parks, etc.

References.

Wikipedia

Annals of International Trade of the Argentine Republic, between 1935 and 1937
(cap. IV).

La Nacion 1933, La Vanguardia 1933, La Prensa 1933, newspapers.  Comentario

de The Economist, citado en La Prensa, 6 de diciembre de 1936, p. 8.

Junta Nacional de Carnes, Informe de la labor realizada desde el 1º de octubre de

1935 hasta el 30 de diciembre de 1937, Buenos Aires, 1937, p. 26, citado por D.
Drosdoff, op. cit., p. 91.

3. Annals of International Trade, Argentine Republic between 1935 and 1937 (cap.
IV).

La Nación, 4 de diciembre de 1936, p. 8; La Vanguardia, 8 de diciembre de 1936,

p. 8, citado por D. Drosdoff, op. cit., pp. 91-92.

Editorial "La política económica y el convenio angloargentino", La Prensa, 13 de

diciembre de 1936, p. 5, y La Prensa, 16 de diciembre de 1936, p. 9.

Opinión del presidente de la Sociedad Rural, doctor Cosme Massini Ezcurra,

respecto del tratado Malbrán-Eden, reproducida en La Prensa, 16 de diciembre de
1936, p. 9.

Declaración de la Confederación de Asociaciones Rurales de Buenos Aires y La

Pampa, cit. en La Prensa, 17 de diciembre de 1936, p. 15.

The War Illustrated, Volume 1, No. 17, Page 541-542, December 29, 1939.

Images are from the Uruguay Naval Museum and www.google.com