For a time he was head of Hut 8, the section responsible for German naval cryptanalysis.

* 1876 – Erich Raeder, German naval commander ( d. 1960 )

It was begun in the late 19th century and redesigned while the construction was in progress to accommodate the extra offices needed due to the naval arms race with the German Empire.

Verbatim translations were sent solely to the Naval Intelligence Division ( NID ) of the Admiralty's Operational Intelligence Centre ( OIC ) supplemented by information from indexes as to the meaning of technical terms and abbreviations, and cross-referenced information from a store of knowledge of German naval technology.

The Baralong Incidents were naval engagements of the First World War in August and September 1915, involving the Royal Navy Q-Ship, later renamed HMS Wyandra, and two German U-boats.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.

** Commodore ( Germany ) or Kommodore, in German naval forces

In the 1920s, the United States followed an independent course, and succeeded in a program of naval disarmament, and refunding the German economy.

With the removal of the German High Seas Fleet in 1919, Britain had no naval enemies, and at the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 it was agreed that the USA, Britain and Japan should set their navies in a ratio of 5: 5: 3, with France and Italy maintaining smaller fleets.

Yap was a major German naval communications center before the First World War and an important international hub for cable telegraphy.

On 5 March a German naval squadron landed in the southwestern archipelago of Finland, on the Åland Islands, which the Swedish military expedition had taken over in mid-February.

The German naval squadron Meurer blocked the city harbour, bombarded the southern town area, and landed naval troops at Katajanokka.

Moreover, the Swedish Navy escorted the German naval squadron, transporting German weapons to the Finnish Whites, and allowed the squadron to pass through Swedish territorial waters in February 1918.

The harbour was transformed into a German naval base.

The naval component of UNIFIL has been under German command.

The naval air arm of the German Navy is called the Marineflieger.

Furthermore, Anglo – German relations cooled as Germany aggressively tried to build a new empire and engaged in a naval race with Britain ; London refused to agree to the formal alliance that Germany sought.

Churchill – referring to the fact that a German naval victory would have made it impossible for Britain to supply her army in France, or even import food – described Jellicoe later as ' the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon '.

Karl Dönitz (; 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980 ) was a German naval commander during World War II.

At this time, the German Abwehr was active in Spain, particularly around the British naval base of Gibraltar, which its agents hoped to watch with cameras and radar to track Allied supply ships in the Western Mediterranean.

Krupp received its first order for 135 Panzer I tanks in 1933, and during WWII made tanks, artillery, naval guns, armor plate, munitions and other armaments for the German military.

During the 19th century, after Schleswig-Holstein had come under the government of Prussia ( from 1871 the German Empire ) following the Second Schleswig War in 1864, a combination of naval interests — the German navy wanted to link its bases in the Baltic and the North Sea without the need to sail around Denmark — and commercial pressure encouraged the development of a new canal.

Built as a fishing trawler in 1936, the HMS Bradman was taken over by the Admiralty in 1939, but was sunk by German aircraft the following year.

These were rescued from the sinking German armed trawler Krebs.

On 30 November a British trawler recovered a safe from the sunken German destroyer S-119, in which was found the Verkehrsbuch ( VB ), the code used by the Germans to communicate with naval attachés, embassies and warships overseas.

* Krebs, was an armed German trawler that was sunk in 1941 in Operation Claymore

Only 15 warships, including a captured German fishing trawler, with some 600 men had managed to evacuate to the United Kingdom by the end of the fighting.

Fourteen German bombers went after the tiny anti-submarine trawler, HMS Rutlandshire, and badly damaged it just down the bay from Namsos.

Nova was escorted southwards by the patrol boat Ingrid – a captured German trawler operated by the Royal Norwegian Navy.

A variant of this game is known in German speaking countries as Bierkastenlauf ( beer crate running ): A team of two is carrying a crate of beer along a route of several kilometers and has to consume all bottles prior to crossing the finish line.

The arms shipment was lost when the German ship carrying it, Aud, was scuttled after interception by the Royal Navy, after the local Volunteers had failed to rendezvous with it.

The first Finnish Jägers had arrived in Finland on 31 October on a ship called Equity, carrying a large shipment of weapons from the German army.

In late 1942, a German U-boat sank the British troopship Laconia carrying 1, 800 Italian POWs off the coast of West Africa.

He does however own 30 % of a German company Marken Marketing International ( MMI ), based in Solingen, that revamps trademarks and produces merchandise carrying the Kalashnikov name, such as vodka, umbrellas and knives.

Dressed in Olympic sweatsuits and carrying sub-machine guns, they were members of the German border-police, without specific operational plans in place for the rescue.

* War must never be seen as having any purpose in itself, but should be seen as an instrument of Politik -- a German word that conflates the meanings of the English words policy and politics: " War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means.

When a train carrying about 1, 000 German Jews arrived at Riga in Latvia on November 29, 1941, Lange simply had them shot.

* January 10 – WWII: Mechelen Incident: A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of defense forces in the Low Countries.

* July 2 – WWII: British-owned, carrying civilian internees and POWs of Italian and German origin from Liverpool to Canada, is torpedoed and sunk by the off northwest Ireland with the loss of around 865 lives.

On 3 October 1989 ( the so-called " battle of Dresden "), a convoy of trains carrying East German refugees from Prague passed through Dresden on its way to the Federal Republic of Germany.

The power of a battleship in protecting a convoy was also dramatically illustrated when the German warships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, carrying 11 " guns, came upon an eastbound British convoy of 41 ships, HX-106 in the North Atlantic on February 8, 1941.

Bismarck agreed to end the siege and allow food convoys to immediately enter Paris ( including trains carrying millions of German army rations ), on condition that the Government of National Defence surrender several key fortresses outside Paris to the Prussians.

On August 15, 1943, the Białystok Ghetto Uprising began, and several hundred Polish Jews and members of the Anti-Fascist Military Organisation () started an armed struggle against the German troops who were carrying out the planned liquidation of the ghetto with deportations to the Treblinka extermination camp.

Furthermore, refugee trains carrying German civilians from the " Rann triangle " area were halted near Celje on August 5, 1945 and their passengers sent to a concentration camp at Teharje.

The concentration of the German fleet in Norway served three purposes ; namely as a threat to Anglo-American convoys carrying supplies around the North Cape to the Soviet Union, to deter an Allied invasion of Norway and as a fleet in being that tied down British warships at Scapa Flow that might otherwise be deployed in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Although atrocities by foreign troops were common, German troops in particular were criticized for their enthusiasm in carrying out Kaiser Wilhelm II ’ s words.

Despite the losses suffered by the Royal Flying Corps, the Imperial German Army Air Service failed to prevent the Royal Flying Corps from carrying out its prime objective, namely the continued support of the army throughout the Arras Offensive with up-to-date aerial photographs and reconnaissance information.

* SMS Libau, a German vessel which in 1916 posed as the Norwegian Aud while carrying arms to Ireland for the Easter Rising

William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State following Wilson's second note, in which Wilson rejected the German arguments that the British blockade was illegal ; was a cruel and deadly attack on innocent civilians ; and that the Lusitania had been carrying munitions.

Whilst its upper reaches carry little other than leisure traffic, further downstream it provides an important link in the German commercial waterway network, carrying traffic from the River Rhine and the North Sea to Berlin and Poland.

For example, on the night of April 27, 1944 German aircraft under cover of darkness ( and possibly carrying fake Royal Air Force markings ) dropped propaganda leaflets on occupied Denmark.

During the Nazi occupation of Voronezh, at the age of just 16, Feoktistov fought with the Soviet Army against the Nazi German invaders, carrying out reconnaissance missions.

However along parts of the line the wind instead of carrying the gas onto the German trenches blew it back onto the British lines.