The Altmark Affair

255 pp. Includes black-and-white photographs. "Account of the German supply ship which was tender for the Admiral Graf Spee, and of its attempts to return to Germany with the prisoners from six captured British ships." "The Altmark Incident (Norwegian: Altmark-affæren; German: Altmark-Zwischenfall) was a naval incident of World War II between British destroyers and the German tanker Altmark, which happened on 16-17 February 1940. It took place in what were, at that time, neutral Norwegian waters. On board the Altmark there were some 300 allied prisoners (officially internees), whose ships were sunk by the pocket battleship Graf Spee in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. British naval forces cornered the tanker and later the destroyer Cossack attacked the German ship and freed all the prisoners, killing and injuring eight German seamen with firearms and wounding ten others, five of them seriously. A British and a Norwegian sailor was also seriously wounded in the action. Germany claimed that the attack was a grave violation of international law and of Norwegian neutrality." KEYWORDS: SECOND WORLD WAR TWO WWII WW2 MILITARY HISTORY WILLI FRISCHAUER ROBERT JACKSON ALTMARK AFFAIR GERMAN GERMANY