Word: liitzow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle-broken Chancellery, where Adolf Hitler and his paramour, Eva Braun, may have died; the ruins of the Propaganda Ministry, Foreign Office, Kroll Opera House and almost every other notable Berlin edifice. The stench of death rose too from corpses still rotting under debris, from the corpse-clogged Liitzow Canal, from hasty, shallow graves dug in every park and Platz...
Then a Soviet submarine commander. Captain Nicolai Lunin, told of sighting the 35,000-ton battleship Tirpitz rounding North Cape, protected by three cruisers (possibly the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper and pocket battleships Admiral Scheer and Liitzow) and eight destroyers. Lunin maneuvered daringly through the screening vessels, sent two torpedoes crashing into the mighty Tirpitz. Immediately the lesser ships drew close about the wounded one. All slowly turned back toward Norway and later were sighted hugging the shore, still plowing toward their anchorage in Trondheim Fjord...
First Stab at Trondheim. The narrow, rutted roads were knee-deep in late-April slush. German bombers and attack ships roared low over the pinetops. From southeast of Steinkjer, smashing echoes rolled into the mountains from the guns of German destroyers and a pocket battleship (probably the Liitzow) bottled up in Beitstad Fjord, as the Germans moved them up to support their land forces...
...heavy cruiser, two light cruisers, eight destroyers, ten submarines, one transport. But Grand Admiral Erich Raeder asserted that "German warship .losses as alleged by the Allies are not in accordance with the facts. The reported sinking or beaching of the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, as well as the cruiser Liitzow, is completely invented. The same holds good for the alleged sinking of the Lloyd express steamship Bremen." (The sinking of the Bremen and the pocket battleship Liitzow was never officially claimed. The sinking of the Gneisenau was claimed by the Norwegians in the confusion of the first attack. The British merely...
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