A renegade former member of Germany's World War Two navy, who thwarted plans to wreck the French port of Bordeaux by retreating Nazi forces, has died at the age of 91, officials said.
"My family were Huguenots (protestant Christians) and I acted according to my Christian conscience," Stahlschmidt told Reuters in a rare interview in 1997."
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