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Surrender of the German Fleet, 1918
by Mary Kate Allen
This contemporary painting by Mary Kate Allen captures the official surrender of Germany's High Seas Fleet ten days after the signing of the Armistice.
Six months later, in June, fearing the Allies were about to invade Germany, the ships' officers and crews scuttled fifty-two of the seventy-four surface ships interred at Scapa Flow, Scotland to prevent them from being turned against their own countrymen. |