General Felmy had already expressed a desire to build a naval air arm to support Kriegsmarine operations in the Atlantic and British waters.

This new metropolis was to be accompanied by a massively expanded version of the already existing naval base, which was intended to become the primary future stronghold of the German Kriegsmarine.

In 1941, the Kriegsmarine had already begun concentrating its strength in Norway in winter, both to prevent a repeated British attack, and to obstruct Allied supply lines to The Soviet Union.

This was far in excess of what Kriegsmarine could supply, and final plans were more modest, calling for nine divisions to make an amphibious landing with around 67, 000 men in the first echelon and an airborne division to support them.

The presence of the German destroyer in the Atlantic Ocean is a likely inaccuracy, as most of the surface fleet of the Kriegsmarine never ventured that far west, and none did so from 1942 onwards.

Raeder wrote in the Seekriegsleitung war diary on 3 September 1939: " Today the war against England and France, which the Führer had previously assured us we would not have to confront until 1944 and which he believed he could avoid up until the very last minute, began ... As far as the Kriegsmarine is concerned, it is obvious that it is not remotely ready for the titanic struggle against England.

The Royal Navy was far more powerful than the German Kriegsmarine.

The German Navy ( Kriegsmarine ) aimed at isolating Gibraltar, Malta, and the Suez Canal so as to break Britain's trade route.

Admiral Raeder was strongly opposed to Sea Lion since the almost entire Kriegsmarine surface fleet had been either sunk or badly damaged in Weserübung, and therefore his service was hopelessly outnumbered by the ships of the Royal Navy.

The Royal Navy's Motor Torpedo Boats ( MTBs ), Kriegsmarine ' S-Boote ' ( Schnellboot or " fast-boat ": British termed them E-boats ), ( Italian ) M. A. S.

The fleet envisioned in the Z Plan was totally incompatible with the Anglo-German Naval Agreement ( A. G. N. A ) of 1935, which limited the Kriegsmarine to 35 % of the total tonnage of the Royal Navy, which meant that A. G. N. A.

The disparity in size between the Royal Navy and the Kriegsmarine meant the great Entscheidungsschlacht in the Mahan-Tirpitz mold that Raeder planned before the war could only end in the destruction of the German force.

Royal Navy reports of captured Kriegsmarine officers and sailors often commented as one report from October 1940 noted the POWs " were all fanatical Nazis and hated the British intensely, which had not been so evident in previous cases ".

The Royal Navy went on to note that based on its interrogations of Kriegsmarine POWs that Raeder's indoctrination policy had borne fruit in that the morale of the Kriegsmarine was extremely high, with the majority of officers and sailors very proud to fight for Führer and fatherland.

This was especially the case because in early 1941, the Royal Navy used intelligence from Ultra to sink all of the Dithmarschen ships and other supply ships that the Kriegsmarine used to supply U-boats and surface raiders on the high seas.

Despite Rheinübung and the damaging attack on the Lützow, in July 1941 Raeder began planning for what he called " the battle of the Atlantic ", a plan to send every single warship in the Kriegsmarine into the Atlantic to take on the Royal Navy in one colossal battle that almost certainly result in the destruction of the German force, but would hopefully make the British victory a Pyrrhic one.

During the same meeting on 18 March 1941, Raeder said he wanted Japan to enter the war as soon as possible, stating that a Japanese attack on the British base at Singapore would force the Royal Navy to deploy most of its strength to the Far East, and thereby allow the Kriegsmarine to win the Battle of the Atlantic.

Under cross-examination, Raeder admitted to passing on the Commando Order on 18 October 1942 to the Kriegsmarine and for enforcing the Commando Order by ordering the summary execution of captured British Royal Marines at Bordeaux in December 1942.

Under cross-examination, Raeder admitted to passing on the Commando Order to the Kriegsmarine and to enforcing the Commando Order by ordering the summary execution of two captured British Royal Marines after the Operation Frankton raid at Bordeaux in December 1942.

The two naval battles in the Ofotfjord on 10 April and 13 April were fought between the British Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine, while the two-month land campaign was fought between Norwegian, French, British, and Polish troops against German and Austrian mountain troops, shipwrecked Kriegsmarine sailors and German Fallschirmjäger from 1st battalion of the 1st Regiment, 7th Fliegerdivision.

The day after the German invasion, the Royal Navy took an opportunity to defeat the Kriegsmarine.

At the outbreak of World War II, the German Navy ( Kriegsmarine ) used auxiliary cruisers ( converted merchant ships ) and the Pocket Battleship Graf Spee to threaten the sea lanes and tie down the Royal Navy.

The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a Second World War naval battle between ships of the Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine, fought on 24 May 1941.

In 1943, the Battle of North Cape was fought in the Arctic Ocean off this cape, where the Kriegsmarine battleship Scharnhorst was eventually sunk by gunfire from the HMS Duke of York and torpedoes from destroyers of the Norwegian and Royal navies.

The loss of the ship led Hitler to complain directly to Karl Dönitz, while comparing the Kriegsmarine unfavourably with the Royal Navy.

The Anglo-German Naval Agreement ( A. G. N. A ) of June 18, 1935 was a bilateral agreement between the United Kingdom and German Reich regulating the size of the Kriegsmarine in relation to the Royal Navy.

The A. G. N. A fixed a ratio whereby the total tonnage of the Kriegsmarine was to be 35 % of the total tonnage of the Royal Navy on a permanent basis.

An important sign of Hitler's changed perceptions about Britain was his decision in January 1939 to give first priority to the Kriegsmarine in relates in the allocation of money, skilled workers, and raw materials and to launch the Plan Z to build a colossal Kriegsmarine of 10 battleships, 16 " pocket battleships ", 8 aircraft carriers, 5 heavy cruisers, 36 light cruisers, and 249 U-boats by 1944 to crush the Royal Navy.

* Kriegsmarine ( War Navy )

With the prospect of the Channel ports falling under Kriegsmarine ( German Navy ) control and attempting to anticipate the obvious next step that might entail, Grand Admiral ( Großadmiral ) Erich Raeder ( head of the Kriegsmarine ) instructed his operations officer, Kapitän Hans Jürgen Reinicke, to draw up a document examining " the possibility of troop landings in England should the future progress of the war make the problem arise.

Raeder led the Kriegsmarine ( German Navy ) for the first half of the war ; he resigned in 1943 and was replaced by Karl Dönitz.

At the same time, Raeder worked to promote National Socialist ideology as opposed to the NSDAP in the Navy, ordering in September 1936 that all officers read a tract by Kriegsmarine Commander Siegfried Sorge called Der Marineoffizier about what it took to be a good officer., Sorge had claimed that one could not be a good naval officer without believing in National Socialist values.

Having spent the last six years championing to Hitler sea power as the only way in which Germany could become a world power, Raeder was anxious that the Kriegsmarine be seen as doing more than its share of the fighting to ensure that Hitler would reward the Navy by not cutting its budget after the war.

* Kriegsmarine The Navy 1935-1945 by Jason Pipes

In theory, the OKW served as the military general staff for the Third Reich, coordinating the efforts of the Army, Navy, and Air Force ( Heer, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe ).

By this A. G. „ Weser ” started it ´ s career as an important constructor of war ships for the Imperial German Navy ( 1871 – 1918 ) first and the Kriegsmarine in the Third Reich ( 1933 – 1945 ) later.

Altogether A. G. „ Weser ” built 146 units for Imperial Navy and 196 units for Kriegsmarine ( Source: Pamphlet 125th anniversary of AG Weser, 1986 ).

In 1856, he joined the Austro-Hungarian Navy ( Kriegsmarine ) as a provisional sea cadet.

The term is most commonly used when discussing naval warfare, notably during the First World War and Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War in which the German Navy ( Kriegsmarine ) attempted to blockade the UK using submarines ( U-boats ) operating in this area.

The use of ship prefixes is not universal ; in particular neither the Third Reich's Kriegsmarine nor the Imperial Japanese Navy used ship prefixes.

Some English-language writers use prefixes like " DKM " ( for " Deutsche Kriegsmarine ") and " HIJMS " ( for " His Imperial Japanese Majesty's Ship ") or " IJN " ( for " Imperial Japanese Navy ", a translation of 大日本帝国海軍 dai-nippon teikoku kaigun ) for consistency with " HMS " and " USS ".

Bernhard Rogge ( 4 November 1899 – 29 June 1982 ) was a Captain () of the German Navy ( Kriegsmarine ) who, during World War II, commanded a merchant raider.