As we have finished with flottenpolik and have now considered the collapse of Wilhelmine Germany this seems timely. Click here for a BBC magazine description of Operation ZZ – the code name for the surrender of the German High Fleet after the First World War.
Andrew Choong, Curator of Ships, Plans and Historic Photographs at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich explains “the Royal Navy perceived something that others did not. They wanted to underline to the Germans that they had truly been defeated, and nothing does that better than having to surrender your fleet into the enemy’s hands” . This is an idea that we will come back to…
Mr Kydd.
