Duty And Honour Before Glory | Military March | KM Graf Spee

Duty And Honour Before Glory was the song that won the vote on my poll. This song is a tribute to the Graf Spee one of the Pocket Battleships or Panzerschiff in German. This was a class of 3 ship. A form of heavily armed cruiser, built by the Reichsmarine (Germany navy) officially in accordance with restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. The ships of the class, Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, and Admiral Graf Spee, were all stated to displace 10,000 long tons (10,160 t) in accordance with the Treaty, though they actually displaced 10,600 to 12,340 long tons (10,770 to 12,540 t) at standard displacement. The design for the ships incorporated several radical innovations, including the first major use of welding in a warship and all-diesel propulsion. Due to their heavy armament of six 28 cm (11 in) guns and lighter weight, the British referred to the vessels as "pocket battleships". The Deutschland-class ships were initially classified as Panzerschiffe, but the Kriegsmarine (the renamed German navy) reclassified them as heavy cruisers in February 1940. But of course i always recommed my viewers to take a deeper dive into the ships i write about. Non of the art belong to me and i highly recommed looking at Hans Langsdorff. The Captain of Graf Spee who was much more different then your traditional German officer of the time. Characterized as a compassionate, principled, and chivalrous officer, often referred to as a "gentleman" who adhered to traditional naval ethics rather than Nazi ideology. It was due to his compassion to his crew not wanting to send them to certain death played a heavy role in his decision to scuttle Graf Spee as he believed the British ruse about more ships present then actually was there. He would lay on the flag of the Graf Spee and shoot himself after scuttling his ship. His body was buried in the German section of the La Chacarita Cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ======== Song: Suno & ChatGPT Thumbnail: ChatGPT made Editing: CapCut ========