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Friday, 11 July 2025

Bulgarian cargo ship Kna Maria Louisa bound for France according to a letter of the German naval attaché at Istanbul dated 24 February 1940

In his letter dated Istanbul, Turkey 24 February 1940 No. 774 g. reported the German naval attaché to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abteilung Ausland the neutral ships passing Istanbul coming out of the Black Sea and loaded with contraband for or chartered by the enemy. An item reported on 18 February the Bulgarian cargo ship Kna Maria Louisa with 450 ton tobacco underway from Constanta, Romania towards Marseille, France.

Source

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

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