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Theodor Krancke
Theodor Krancke (30 March 1893 – 18 June 1973) was a naval commander (admiral) of Nazi Germany during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. 
Under the command of Krancke, during the five-month-long raiding cruise, the pocket battleship "Admiral Scheer" sank 13 merchant ships, one armed merchant cruiser , and captured three merchant ships representing of Allied and neutral shipping.
During the Allied Invasion of Normandy Krancke, as
all that time she held her own, hit by shells but firing back and delaying the raider hour by hour while the rest of the convoy made their escape.” However, the account published after the war by the Scheer's captain, Theodor Krancke ("Pocket Battleship") makes no mention of any battle with the "Beaverford", which he mentions only as a ship carrying timber that proved hard to sink by gunfire. Krancke does mention a gun being briefly fired at his ship from what must have been the