Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider fleet. Hitler’s navy, the German Kriegsmarine, was designed to do one ...

In the winter of 1944, four German paratroopers and a Kriegsmarine sailor broke free from a POW camp in the French port of ...

First conceived by Messerschmitt as a carrier-borne fighter, the Me 155 morphed into a high-speed attack plane and later a ...

In 1933, the new Nazi government was preparing to rearm on land and at sea. The Kriegsmarine realized that building additional pocket battleships would serve no compelling purpose.

To defend their newly occupied territory, Erich Raeder ordered the Kriegsmarine (Nazi Germany's navy) to strip the Graf Zeppelin of its 15cm guns and use them as shore batteries since the carrier ...

German U-boats were already very effective at this, but Grand Adm. Erich Raeder, head of the Kriegsmarine, hoped to demonstrate to Hitler the value of Germany's surface fleet in order to avoid ...

While German U-Boats are the most deadly component of the Third Reich's naval arsenal, ... Around 2,000 members of the Nazi Kriegsmarine lost their lives in the engagement.

German battleship Bismarck off of Kiel, Germany, September 1940. Sobotta/ullstein bild via Getty Images As soon as the war started, the Kriegsmarine set out to attack Allied shipping lanes.

Born to tend to Nazi U-boats, floating crane Titan (aka Herman the German) found new life in the U.S. Navy and helped revitalize the most ambitious canal project in human history.

As such, a claim that a submarine – also known as a U-Boat – of the German Kriegsmarine was sunk in a sneak attack in waters off Sungai Petani might seem ludicrous.

Nazi Germany Once Tried to Build an Aircraft Carrier. ... Germany’s wartime ally, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider fleet.