According to radio Moscow broke mutiny out on board of the German Baltic fleet. The crew of the carrier Graf Zeppelin refused to scuttle the ship. The complete crew was arrested by the Sicherheitsdienst and the ship was towed to Kiel. Admiral Dönitz ordered all commanding officers in the Baltic to scuttle their ships preventing to be captured by the Russians. When eventually mutiny broke out were the SS men within the crews ordered to take over the command. (1)
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1. This item wasn’t telling the truth. She was at lying alongside a wharf in the Parnitz River on a distance of two miles from Stettin and was scuttled by opening the valves sinking into the mud in swallow water. She was prepared with explosions which were detonated when the Russians entered on 25 April 1945 Stettin. She was finally destroyed by the Russians on 16 August 1947.
Note
1. This item wasn’t telling the truth. She was at lying alongside a wharf in the Parnitz River on a distance of two miles from Stettin and was scuttled by opening the valves sinking into the mud in swallow water. She was prepared with explosions which were detonated when the Russians entered on 25 April 1945 Stettin. She was finally destroyed by the Russians on 16 August 1947.