'Graf Spee' commander in Montevideo - suicide after scuttling.
'Graf Spee' commander in Montevideo - suicide after scuttling. Captain Hans Langdorff, commander of the German pocket battleship 'Admiral Graf Spee' (left) with two aides and a Uruguayan official at Montevideo after his defeat by three British cruisers. The commander was ordered to scuttle his ship rather than meet the British warships again, and he later committed suicide in Buenos Aires.



