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what if Germany gave way its navy to neutral nations secretly after it lost in 1918 to avoid giving it to the allies
what if Germany gave way its navy to neutral nations secretly after it lost in 1918 to avoid giving it to the allies
In 1918, in order to avoid having to give the fleet to the victors, the Austrian Emperor handed down the entire Austro-Hungarian Navy and merchant fleet, with all harbours, arsenals and shore fortifications to the new State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs.The state of SCS was proclaimed officially on 29 October 1918. They in turn sent diplomatic notes to the governments of France, the United Kingdom, Italy, the United States and Russia, to notify them that the State of SCS was not at war with any of them and that the Council had taken over the entire Austro-Hungarian fleet. Austria asked for an armistice on 29 October.
However, on 1 November 1918 the navy underwent an attack at its moorings by the Italian Regia Marina: supposedly without knowing about the Emperor's move, two men of the Regia Marina, Raffaele Paolucci and Raffaele Rossetti, rode a primitive manned torpedo (nicknamed the Mignatta or "leech") into the Austro-Hungarian naval base at Pola. Using limpet mines, they then sank the anchored Viribus Unitis, with considerable loss of life, as well as the freighter Wien.[11] The French navy commandeered the new dreadnought SMS Prinz Eugen, which they took to France and later used it for target practice in the Atlantic, where it was destroyed.[3]
I don't know , if and then in what kind neutral states might be asked for :Would any neutral have accepted it?
Iirc the Allies' original proposal was for the HSF to be interned in a neutral port, but this had to be changed to internment at Scapa Flow because no neutral was willing to take on the job.
Would any neutral have accepted it?
Iirc the Allies' original proposal was for the HSF to be interned in a neutral port, but this had to be changed to internment at Scapa Flow because no neutral was willing to take on the job.