Word: deutschland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opposed to these men are Admiral Rolf Carls, whose slight acquaintance the British made off Spain in 1936-37 when he was there in the Deutschland, and Admiral General Alfred Saalwächter, a former U-boat commander, sent out to assist Carls in Adolf Hitler's cold-blooded act of sacrificing his scattered Navy to gain windows on the Atlantic. Opposed to that sacrifice, on the ground that the situation it would create could not be maintained, was the German Navy's Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, again reported last week...
...German High Command announced that the pocket battleship Deutschland, sinker of the British armed merchantman Rawalpindi (and little else), reached home "recently." The occasion for giving out this information was the announcement that her name would be taken from her and given to "a bigger ship." Her new name would be the Lutzow, taken from a new 10,000-ton cruiser not yet commissioned. Some hopeful Allied experts hoped the real reason for this name change was that the Deutschland had been sunk by the Salmon or one of the three British submarines lost in action last month...
Aside from the ill omen which sailormen believe follows changing a warship's name, interest centred on the "bigger" Deutschland, which must be one of the four 35,000-ton (perhaps 40,000) battleships which Germany is feverishly putting together. Two of these ships, launched last February and April, were christened Bismarck and Tirpitz. A third, on the ways at Kiel, must now be ready to take the water or already has.* Perhaps all three will be ready for action early next autumn. What will that do to the balance of sea power in World...
...Deutschland and her sisters have an extraordinary beam of 118 ft.-about 25 ft. wider than the biggest liners afloat. This indicates enormous armor protection and underwater bulkheading. The German ships mount eight 15-inch guns to the new British ships' ten 14-inchers. Even if they are not, en masse, the British ships' equal, they will constitute a threat which may force the British to base their battlefleet, not at Belfast as at present, but again at Scapa Flow, where Nazi airplanes and submarines can snipe at them more handily...
...loss of 100 submariners was the British Navy's heaviest in one engagement since Deutschland sank Rawalpindi (259 lives). The loss of three submarines (plus the 1,354-ton Oxley sunk by accident last autumn) left her with 65 of the 69 she had when war began. Added to France's 78, this leaves the Allies well ahead of Germany's pre-war total of 65 U-boats...