Vizeadmiral Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, born in Posen, Prussia, and of French-German descent, was a German U-boat commander during World War I. With 194 ships and 453,716 gross register tons sun
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U-35 in the Mediterranean Sea
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The Pour le Mérite, also informally known as the Blue Max after German WWI flying ace Max Immelmann, is an order of merit established in 1740 by King Frederick II of Prussia. Alongside the extinct Ord
Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière
…sunken tonnage and number of sunken ships is unsurpassed since then. For his service, he was awarded the Iron Cross, second and first class, and the Pour le Mérite in 1916. After the war, Arnauld de la Perière stayed in a vastly reduced German Navy. During the 1920s, he served as navigation officer on the old…
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