In the evening of December the 17th, the ship left the port of Montevideo and lowered the anchor. Captain Langsdorff and the skeleton crew of 40 aboard set timed explosives and abandoned ship to meet with the rest of the crew, that had stayed in Montevideo.
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Captain Hans Langsdorff had considered the life of his crew more important than a mission that would have been a suicide and had no effect in the course of the war.