Monday, 7 April 2025

Greek merchant ship Dimitrios Thermiotis bound for England according to a letter of the German naval attaché at Istanbul dated 6 January 1940

In his letter dated Istanbul,  6 January 1940 No. 618g. reported the German naval attaché to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abteilung Ausland the ships passing Istanbul coming out of the Black Sea and loaded with contraband for or chartered by the enemy. An item mentioned on 1 January the Greek merchant ship Dimitrios Thermiotis loaded with 7,000 ton wheat and mais bound for Manchester, England.

Source

Bundesarchiv. German Marineattaché for , Greece, Romania and Bulgaria 1939-1941. RM 12-II/459. 

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