Word: graf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British cruiser Ajax dropped anchor last week at Haifa. In the first winter of the war against Hitler, the Ajax had been a symbol of hope and freedom when she and two other light British warcraft harried the German pocket battleship Graf Spee to self-destruction off Montevideo. She was not that sort of symbol last week to hundreds of desperate Jews who stared at her from impounded refugee ships in Haifa harbor...
...extremely small clique of ambitious, unscrupulous and at the same time foolish, criminally stupid officers hatched a plot to remove me and . . . the staff of the German High Command. The bomb that was placed by Colonel Graf von Stauffenberg exploded two meters [about two yards] away from me on my right side. It wounded very seriously a number of my dear collaborators. One of them has died...
...Executed were: 1) bomb-tossing Colonel Graf Claus von Stauffenberg, member of Hitler's own personal staff since he lost his right arm and eye in Tunisia; 2) Colonel General Ludwig Beck, onetime Chief of Staff, who fought Hitler's intuition in 1938, had since been in retirement. D.N.B. reported: "He is no longer among living beings...
...battle and ran instead into crushing Japanese air power. It brought a rueful success when the unarmored merchant cruiser Jervis Bay tackled a heavy raider force and went down with her guns blazing, saving a convoy by her sacrifice. But it paid off richly in the destruction of the Graf Spee, paid off again in the trapping and sinking of the Bismarck, paid off in every engagement with the hapless Italian Fleet, paid off in the timely sinking of the battleship Scharnhorst (TIME, Jan. 3). Last week it paid off once more: in the Bay of Biscay, two British warships...
...service again. Despite the catchy description, she is no battleship, but an armored cruiser of around 12,000 tons. For the rest, aside from a few light cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats, the German Navy's sole remaining surface threat is the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, never yet in action, and last reported hiding out in the Baltic port of Stettin...