Scheer tried to suppress naval mutinies and later presented his understanding of the conflict through memoirs. An intruder murdered his wife and maid and injured his daughter in 1920, deepening the solitude in which he wrote From Sailing Ship to Submarine. Jellicoe later invited him to England for a personal meeting. Scheer reportedly looked forward to leaving his isolation for that visit, but he died in 1928 before it could happen. The planned encounter suggests that the two former commanders could distinguish personal reconciliation from the hostility of wartime publication.
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Postwar tragedy, memoirs, and a missed Jellicoe meeting
Scheer's later life included efforts against naval mutiny, family tragedy, autobiography, and a planned reconciliation with Jellicoe that his death prevented.