1941. The death of "Bismarck"

Lincor "Bismarck". 1940. Photo: Bundesarchiv

75 years ago, on May 27, 1941, 400 miles west of the French coast, ships and aircraft of the British fleet sank the German battleship "Bismarck", then the largest in the world. Of the 2221 members of the team 2106 were killed, only 115 people were saved.

The commander of the British fleet of the metropolis, Admiral John Tovi in ​​his memoirs, wrote: Bismarck gave the most heroic battle under the most impossible conditions, worthy of the old days of the Imperial German Fleet, and he went under the water with a raised flag. "And the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey Mehmet Sarajoglu, commenting on the seizure of the Germans of Crete, noted: noted: noted: "England still has many islands around the world, and Germany will not have the second" bismarck "."