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Tuesday, 25 August 2026

Romanian cargo ship Dacia loaded with war stores underway towards Romania according to a letter of the German naval attaché at Istanbul dated2 March 1940

In his letter dated Istanbul, Turkey 2 March 1940 No. 801 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 27 February the Romanian ship Dacia loaded with 3 aircraft, 400 ton machine guns and small arms coming from Marseille, France towards Constanta, Romania.

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

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