In January of 1940, the mighty pocket battleship Admiral Hipper was paving the way for a Kriegsmarine convoy that had to ...

The Kriegsmarine faced a highly problematic situation: two of its most important capital ships docked in Brest, France, were under constant attack by the Royal Air Force, which was determined to ...

While the Kriegsmarine's only aircraft carrier, the uncompleted Graf Zeppelin, has attracted considerable interest over the decades, this has been limited to technical histories of the vessel. This ...

The Kriegsmarine had been trying to block trans-Atlantic shipping routes since the war began, and its capital ships had played an important role in intercepting or sinking Allied shipping.

Bismarck and Tirpitz were Nazi Germany's most imposing warships, and the Allies hunted them across the North Atlantic.

While U-Boats were a cause of concern for Allied forces crossing the waters of the Atlantic, by far the most famous ship in the Kriegsmarine was the Battleship Bismarck.

Summary and Top 4 Points: The Graf Zeppelin, Germany’s first aircraft carrier, was laid down in 1936 but never entered service due to internal disputes, skepticism, and war priorities. -Designed ...

In his 2004 book Asy Podvodnoi Voiny (“Aces of the Underwater War”), Gennady Drozhzhin writes that out of all the active nine Kriegsmarine subs sank, four were destroyed by Soviet subs. Bona ...

Decades after it sunk, the battleship Tirpitz is still stunting the environment.