During the early years of World War II, the German navy launched daring raiding missions in the Pacific Ocean - far from the ...

In February 1940, just five months into World War II, six German Kriegsmarine destroyers embarked on Operation Wikinger, aiming to disrupt suspected British espionage among fishing trawlers near ...

Source: Weapons of WWII magazine The Kriegsmarine began the war with just 56 U-boats, but over the course of the war they would build 691 type VII U-boats alone. Here's a photo of a U-35 boat ...

At the outbreak of war, the strength of the German Navy was not adequate for the needs of a major war, although they did achieve some remarkable results during the early years of the conflict ...

Nazi Germany's two Bismarck-class battleships were the most imposing it built during World War II. The threat they ... and represented the pride of the Kriegsmarine. They were also the German ...

Launched in 1939, the Tirpitz was one of two Bismarck-class battleships built by the Nazi Kriegsmarine shortly before World War II began. Like many of the Nazis military projects, Bismarck-class ...