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Montevideo, May 9th 2025 - 09:55 UTC

Tag: Graf Spee

  • Monday, June 19th 2023 - 11:29 UTC

    No dove of peace after all for battleship Graf Spee's eagle

    “I still maintain that it is a good idea,” said Lacalle after reversing his decision

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou had a change of mind Sunday regarding the bronze eagle from the Third Reich's battleship Admiral Graf Spee and announced it would not be turned into a dove of peace because “an overwhelming majority did not share” his decision. However, he did not specify what will happen to the piece.

  • Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 09:06 UTC

    WWII: Graf Spee's eagle to be turned into a bronze dove of peace

    “The signal from our country to our people and the outside world is that we are a society of peace and union,” Lacalle said

    Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Friday announced that the bronze eagle retrieved from the wreckage of the German World War II battleship Admiral Graf Spee in 2006 will be transformed into a dove as a “symbol of peace and union” by local artist Pablo Atchugarry, whose work is expected to be completed by November, it was reported in Montevideo.

  • Thursday, December 30th 2021 - 20:33 UTC

    Uruguay needs to sell the Graf Spee's eagle to pay those who retrieved it

    Uruguay has vowed to make sure the eagle's swastika is not turned into a shrine of Nazism.

    An Uruguayan Court of Appeals has ruled the Government needs to sell the bronze eagle retrieved from the wreckage of the 3rd Reich's Admiral Graf Spee off the Montevideo coast.

  • Saturday, November 27th 2021 - 09:23 UTC

    Graf Spee's anchor ferried to future Battle of River Plate memorial site

    Captain Langsdorff eventually commited suicide in Buenos Aires

    The 7-ton anchor which once belonged to the Reichsmarine's Panzerschiff Admiral Graf Spee sank off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, marking the end to the Battle of the River Plate against British Commonwealth forces at the beginning of World War II, has been ferried by lorry to Punta del Este to be a part of the Memorial site to be opened before the end of the year.

  • Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 11:32 UTC

    Battleship Graf Spee Nazi eagle must be sold, orders Uruguayan court

    The eagle was briefly displayed in a Montevideo hotel after being recovered, before being taken to storage

    Uruguay's government must sell a huge, bronze Nazi eagle, and gun ranging telemeter, salvaged from a sunken World War II era Nazi Germany warship, a court ruled on Friday. The nearly 350 kilo eagle with a swastika held in its claws was part of the stern of the German “pocket battleship” Admiral Graf Spee that was sunk off the coast of Montevideo in December 1939, that is almost eighty years ago.

  • Tuesday, April 8th 2014 - 22:20 UTC

    Memorial unveiling to commemorate the Battle of the River Plate

    HMS Ajax one of the three Royal Navy vessels involved in the battle

    Survivors of the first major naval battle of the Second World War will gather at Britain's National Memorial Arboretum to unveil a memorial commemorating the event. The Battle of the River Plate took place 75 years ago (December 1939), and less than a dozen veterans are still alive from this, the only episode of the war to take place in South America.