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    The Kriegsmarine (German pronunciation: [ˈkʁiːksmaˌʁiːnə], lit. 'War Navy') was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial...
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    The organization of the Kriegsmarine refers to the operational and administrative structure of the German Navy from 1935 to 1945. Many of the organizational...
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  • The list of Kriegsmarine ships includes all ships commissioned into the Kriegsmarine, the navy of Nazi Germany, during its existence from 1935 to the conclusion...
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    and Royal War Navy (German: kaiserliche und königliche Kriegsmarine, in short k.u.k. Kriegsmarine, Hungarian: Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet) was the...
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    The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany prior to and during World War II. Kriegsmarine uniform design followed that of the preexisting Reichsmarine...
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    Admiralty Imperial German plans for the invasion of the United Kingdom Kriegsmarine List of ships of the Imperial German Navy List of naval ships of Germany...
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    Awards and decorations of the Kriegsmarine consisted of a series of war badges as well as a series of naval combat clasps; these awards were considered...
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    command and the highest administrative and command authority of the Kriegsmarine. It was officially formed from the Marineleitung ("Naval Command") of...
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  • reached production status and was fielded (i.e. for operational use), Kriegsmarine gave it a short designation "T", or "Torpedonummer", with the number...
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  • Flag officers of the Kriegsmarine were the leadership of the German Navy (known then as the "Kriegsmarine") from 1935 to 1945. Most flag officers had also...
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    Former Kriegsmarine S-boat fast attack craft UW10 (former Kriegsmarine S 130) 1957–1993 UW11 (former Kriegsmarine S 208 1957–1964 S116 (Kriegsmarine name...
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    Channel ports falling under Kriegsmarine (German Navy) control, Grand Admiral (Großadmiral) Erich Raeder (head of the Kriegsmarine) attempted to anticipate...
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    of the three military branches of the Wehrmacht: the Heer (army), the Kriegsmarine (navy) and the Luftwaffe (air force), as well as the Waffen-SS, the Reich...
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  • Java Kriegsmarine M3, M4 No No Minarke (Minarke Is Not A Real Kriegsmarine Enigma) C/Posix/CLI (MacOS, Linux, UNIX, etc.) Wehrmacht, Kriegsmarine, M3,...
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    Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer (army), the Kriegsmarine (navy) and the Luftwaffe (air force). The designation "Wehrmacht" replaced...
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  • equivalent to counter or rear admiral. K.u.K. Kriegsmarine In the Austro-Hungarian K.u.K. Kriegsmarine (1849 to 1918) there were the flag officer ranks...
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  • Army.[citation needed] In the Imperial German Navy, and later in the Kriegsmarine, the rank Großadmiral was the equivalent of a British admiral of the...
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  • through the inter-war years of the Reichsmarine. Flag officers of the Kriegsmarine were the leadership of the Germany Navy during World War II under the...
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    Luftwaffe (German air force) and a few Heer (German army) messages, as the Kriegsmarine (German navy) employed much more secure procedures for using Enigma....
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  • Kriegsmarine is a video game published by Simulations Canada in 1989 that simulates naval combat during World War II. It is text-only, unusual for the...
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  • The following is a list of destroyers and large torpedo boats of Germany. In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance...
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    pennants that used in the years between 1935 and 1945 by the German Kriegsmarine and merchant navy. The Reichskriegsflagge, which was introduced on 7...
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  • A type commander in the Kriegsmarine was a permanently assigned administrative officer in the organization of the Kriegsmarine which oversaw the development...
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    called the Wehrmacht (defence force). This included the Heer (army), Kriegsmarine (navy), and the Luftwaffe (air force). From 2 August 1934, members of...
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    ship's cat who purportedly served during World War II with both the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy and survived the sinking of three ships. The cat's...
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    successor organizations, made up of former members of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine (War Navy), became something of a transition stage for the navy, allowing...
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  • Oberleutnant zur See (OLt zS or OLZS in the German Navy, Oblt.z.S. in the Kriegsmarine) is traditionally the highest rank of Lieutenant in the German Navy....
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  • The German operation for the invasion of Denmark and Norway in April 1940 was code-named Weserübung, or "Weser Exercise." Opposing the invasion were the...
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    Surface flotillas of the Kriegsmarine were organizational groupings of German naval vessels during World War II based on class of vessel and geographical...
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    Karl Dönitz (category Grand admirals of the Kriegsmarine)
    start of the Second World War, Dönitz was supreme commander of the Kriegsmarine's U-boat arm (Befehlshaber der Unterseeboote (BdU)). In January 1943,...
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