21 May 1938
![Launching of Hohenfels, Vulkan shipyard, Bremen, Germany, 21 May 1938](/images/imagemagick/tmb_627952749330d.jpg)
- Gneisenau was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Gneisenau | CPC]
- British Ambassador Nevile Henderson met with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop twice in Berlin, Germany on this date in regards to the tension over Czechoslovakia. British Foreign Minister Lord Halifax likewise met with German Ambassador Herbert von Dirksen in Berlin, Germany. ww2dbase [Munich Conference and the Annexation of Sudetenland | Berlin | CPC]
![Launching of Hohenfels, Vulkan shipyard, Bremen, Germany, 21 May 1938](/images/imagemagick/tmb_627952749330d.jpg)
![Merchant ship Hohenfels shortly after launching, Vulkan shipyard, Bremen, Germany, 21 May 1938](/images/imagemagick/tmb_62795275c6fb7.jpg)
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