German Battleship Bismarck's Rise and Fall, Part 1

Editor’s note: This is the first in a four-part weekend series on the hunt for the Bismarck, coming up on its 85th anniversary this month. On Valentine’s Day 1939, Adolf Hitler visited Hamburg’s Blohm & Voss shipyard. He was there to preside over the christening of Germany’s newest battleship. Dorothee von Löwenfeld, granddaughter of Otto ...