Diary note dated Friday 8 September 1939. An item reported that to the noon call of the German Department of Navy hardly offered any naval news. The landing force of the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein assisted by an Engineer Battalion and with support of the ship’s guns captured the munition dump at the Westerplatte at 09.50 o’clock. What was left of her garrizon surrendered. The city Gdynia, Poland was still not fallen.(1)
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1. Part of Deutschland-class preceded by Braunschweig-class succeeded by Nassau-class, ordered on 11 June 1904, laid down by Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany on 18 August 1905, launched on 17 December 1906, commissioned on 6 July 1908, decommissioned between 2 May 1917 and 31 January 1926, sunk in a British air attack at Gotenhafen [Gdynia, Poland] in December 1944, scuttled on 21 March 1945, salvaged and beached and used as a target between 1948-1966. Remains nowadays submerged.
Source
National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)
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