We had been waiting for months, trapped on those massive ships, watching the British guards watch us. My crew was restless, angry, ready to explode. Then, on the morning of June 21st, the British…
The British battle squadron had just left the harbor for a torpedo exercise. That was the moment Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter had been waiting for. For seven months, his German fleet had been interned in Scapa Flow, a prisoner of war under the watchful eyes of the Royal Navy. The peace negotiations at Versailles … Read more