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The Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled after seeking temporary refuge in Uragauy. Langsdorf was convinced that a superior force awaited him outside the Plate Estuary and would have been shadowed by cruisers even if his ship hadn't been sunk. However suppose to took the option of sailing across the estuary to Beunos Aires where a public sympathies were more Pro-German than in Uraguay?

However President Ortez was not pro German and had felt horror at Guernica but a lot of his cabinet were including Vice President Ramirez. Could Langsdorff have done a Goeben and handed the ship to Argentina and if so at what price? Would the German's have expected an attack on the Falkland Islands in return? Opinion was not by anymeans pro-axis in Argentina. There was an influential Anglo-Argentinian community in Argentina and after Pearl Harbour there were pro-American rallies.
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