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Nazi Germany Had Plans to Build a Massive Super Battleship Fleet
War is Boring ^ | January 6, 2017 | Robert Farley

Posted on 01/06/2017 6:50:53 AM PST by C19fan

In the mid-1930s, the Nazi government began to plan in detail for the reconstruction of German naval power. The destruction of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow remained central to the mythology of German betrayal and defeat in World War I. Rebuilding the fleet would be a grand achievement worthy of the Nazis, but also in accord with long-term German foreign policy goals.

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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: battleship; navy; nazis; ww2
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To: C19fan
As opposed to the Battle of Moon Sound and Operation Albion which essentially destroyed the remaining Russian naval threat to German advances in the Baltic?
41 posted on 01/06/2017 8:29:05 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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