He earned a baronetcy during World War I, but as Austria-Hungary became landlocked at war's end, his naval career ended.
He earned a baronetcy during World War I, but as Austria-Hungary became landlocked at war's end, his naval career ended. Offered command of a new submarine by Hitler in 1938, he opted to defect rather than serve the Nazis, fleeing first to Italy, then to the U.S. For ten points name this Austrian naval commander, whose wartime exploits are far less well known than the musical talents of his wife and children., as told in the play and film The Sound of Music.
He earned a baronetcy during World War I, but as Austria-Hungary became landlocked at war's end, his naval career ended.
Georg von {Trapp}