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...marked the end of the German Fleet as an offensive threat. Since the outbreak of the war the German Fleet has been whittled from 18 major warships to a fighting six. They are: the pocket battleship Lutzow, the 26,000-ton battleship Scharnhorst, the never-in-action aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, the three light cruisers Nurnberg, Leipzig and Emden...
...Fleet always on the alert in home waters, and by putting its offensive emphasis on submarines, it almost won the Battle of the Atlantic, contributed largely to German and Italian dominance of the Mediterranean in 1939-42. But, tactically, German Admirals Raeder and Doenitz have lost some great ships (Graf Spee, Bismarck, Blucher, etc.) in questionable actions...
...outbreak, Germany reportedly had eight other major ships building. Apparently only one, carrier Graf Zeppelin, has been completed...
Many operagoers found these arrangements much more pleasing than the traditional muscle-bound Wagnerian posturing. They reflected that the visual aspects of opera are secondary at best. Said the Metropolitan's stage director Herbert Graf: "One thing Miss Lawrence has showed us is how many gestures usual with opera singers are unnecessary and, in general, can be dispensed with...
...Trondheim fleet actually includes two carriers, they are probably converted merchantmen (the Graf Zeppelin and Deutschland are not thought to be ready). The British feel that they could lick such a force. But the burden of keeping enough ships at hand to counter the many moves open to this fleet in being has a "momentous effect" on Allied strategy...