Re: Jutland - the pictoral countdown
Text from the last photo:
A plaque shown by the French in the trenches at Chevillecourt:
"The >>Great Victory<< at Skagerrak is... an English victory! After many days of hesitation the German Admiralty finally decided to confirm the loss of "Lutzow", "Westfalen", "Pommern", "Rostock", "Elbing", "Wiesbaden", "Frauenlob" and numerous torpedoboots(destroyers). It still keeps secret the loss of "Kaiserin" and "Hindenburg"!... German fleet remains trapped in its bases - where it escaped! The command of the seas belongs to the English more than ever!"
Admiral Scheer wrote in his short description "Thoughs on the battle of Skagerrak"
"The results of the battle: We have proved to the entire world, that the English fleet is not invincible, and that we have to fight our way to the right of German Nation to open seas. What was the principle of our national development in the last twenty years was embodied in that battle".
The best assessment of the achievements of the Hochseeflotte belongs to the former enemy. The English book by Corbett on the war at sea entitled "The War at Sea", Vol 2, p. 418 says:
"What Admiral Scheer achieved is glorious enough for him to be placed among the greatest admirals of all time"