Kriegsmarine in a sentence

Though membership in the German Nazi party was barred to Jews, thousands joined the Luftwaffe, Wehrmacht, and Kriegsmarine in the 1930s.

Acting either alone or in support of Kriegsmarine battleships, could have threatened Britain’s commercial lifeline, and at the very least made the antisubmarine campaign considerably more complicated.

Furthermore, the Kriegsmarine was also desperately short on smaller destroyers needed to escort its capital ship.

It took the Kriegsmarine two years and dozens of submarines lost before it fielded an effective countermeasure.

The former French naval base and dockyard with excellent facilities had been taken over by the Kriegsmarine in 1940.

The Kriegsmarine might be able to flank the invasion sea lanes across the English Channel with mines and attack the Royal Navy from the air, but German naval commanders were not confident.

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

Battleships The Kriegsmarine completed four battleships during its existence.

Chapter 1 of his 1976 book "Clear The Decks" contains a detailed description of the U-464 incident with the Icelandic trawler which confirms the Kriegsmarine account.

Deighton, Len Battle of Britain Jonathan Cape, 1980 Robinson argues that the massive superiority of the Royal Navy over the Kriegsmarine would have made Sea Lion a disaster.

Due to ongoing friction between the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine, the primary source of convoy sightings was the U-boats themselves.

During his service with the M.G.B.'s, he was on one occasion involved in an action against Kriegsmarine E-boats which resulted in one of the enemy craft being destroyed by ramming, whilst Troughton's boat and another destroyed two more with their gunfire.

During the Second World War, it was cited as a reason for the Kriegsmarine to do the same.

Even the Kriegsmarine's Naval Operations Office deemed this a plausible and desirable goal, especially given the relatively short distance, convert, between the French and English coasts.

Few of the incomplete ships of destroyer size or above were completed, but many smaller warships and auxiliaries were completed and commissioned into Kriegsmarine during the war.

Given barely two months to assemble a large seagoing invasion fleet, the Kriegsmarine opted to convert inland river barges into makeshift landing craft.

Heinsohn commanded her for her entire career in the Kriegsmarine.

Hitler’s Commanders: Officers of the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe, the Kriegsmarine, and the Waffen-SS, p. 2. Elevated to the rank of a captain, Keitel quickly recovered, and in 1915 posted to the General Staff of the 19th Reserve Infantry Division.

In addition, the Kriegsmarine used much more secure operating procedures than the Heer (army) or Luftwaffe (air force).

In December 1939, the German Army issued its own study paper (designated Nordwest) and solicited opinions and input from both the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe (the German Air Force).