Kriegsmarine
The '''''' (, ) was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The was one of three official branches, along with the and the , of the , the German armed forces from 1935 to 1945.
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The Kriegsmarine was the official navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945, serving as one of three branches of the German armed forces during that period. It replaced the naval forces of both the earlier German Empire and the Weimar Republic that had existed before Nazi rule.
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- Adolf Hitler
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- Wehrmacht
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- Navy
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- 810,000 peak in 1944 1,500,000 (total 1939–45)
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- World War II (1939–1945)
Article
37 sectionsContents
- History
- Post–World War I origins
- Nazi control
- Spanish Civil War
- Plan Z
- World War II
- War crimes
- Post-war division
- Major wartime operations
- Ships
- Surface ships
- Aircraft carriers
- Battleships
- Pre-dreadnought battleships
- Battlecruisers
- ''Panzerschiffe'' and Heavy cruisers
- Light cruisers
- Auxiliary cruisers
- Destroyers
- Torpedo boats
- E-boats (''Schnellboote'')
- Troop ships
- Miscellaneous
- Submarines
- Captured ships
- Major enemy warships sunk or destroyed
- Organisation
- Command structure
- Air units
- Coastal artillery, flak and radar units
- Marines
- Personnel
- Ranks and uniforms
- See also
- Notes
- Bibliography
- External links
The '''''' (, ) was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The was one of three official branches, along with the and the , of the , the German armed forces from 1935 to 1945.
In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, the grew rapidly during the German naval rearmament in the 1930s. The 1919 treaty had limited the size of the German navy and prohibited the building of submarines.
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