21 June 1919: The German High Seas Fleet (Hochseeflotte) interned at Scapa Flow, fearful that their ships would be seized by the victorious Entente as soon as the Treaty of Versailles was signed (a well grounded fear), was scuttled in a disciplined manuever; British guards intervened, killing nine German sailors—the last casualties of the World War—but fifty-two of the seventy-four German ships sank.
Lest we forget.
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