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The Icy Death of the Scharnhorst #history #ww2 #germany

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On the night of 26 December 1943, the German battleship Scharnhorst was sunk off the North Cape of Norway by ships of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet under Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser. She had sailed from northern Norway the previous afternoon, under the command of Konteradmiral Erich Bey, to attack an Allied convoy bound for Murmansk—an operation the British already knew of, because cryptanalysts had been reading the Kriegsmarine's signals for days.

The Battle of the North Cape was decided by radar. A single salvo from the cruiser Norfolk destroyed the Scharnhorst's forward radar aerial, leaving her unable to see what lay ahead, and eight hours later the battleship Duke of York was waiting on her only route home. Of a complement of nearly two thousand men, thirty-six were pulled from the water. The wreck was found in 2000.

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Music used in this Short:
What Lurks Below by Jon Björk
Epidemic Sound
Category
NORDKAPP
Tags
Jürgens, Scharnhorst, Scharnhorst Sinking
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