• JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    At the end of World War II, the four German sailing vessels then extant were distributed to various nations as war reparations. Horst Wessel [this ship] was won by the United States in a drawing of lots with the Soviet and British navies

    What a story.