So if ADMIRAL SCHEER is in the Indian Ocean, is LUETZOW [formerly DEUTSCHLAND] the ship accompanying PRINZ
eugen to Norway?
Yes and no.
Admiral Scheer is not in the Indian Ocean, but Lutzow is accompanying Prinz Eugen to Norway. The KM will concentrate most of their remaining surface forces for use in the northern waters. Right now it’s Tirpitz, Lutzow & Eugen. They will be joined by Scharnhorst & Hipper later. Gneisenau is headed for the scrapyard and Scheer, I believe, will remain at Kiel.
Tirpitz will just sit in port for the most part until the Brits finally bag her. Scharnhorst will be sunk off the North Cape by HMS Duke of York and cruisers Belfast, Sheffield, Norfolk & Jamaica on Boxing Day 1943. The rest of the KM (Hipper, Scheer, Lutzow & Eugen) will see extensive action in 1945 providing fire support to German army units in East Prussia.