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Pictures:
Deutschland
Admiral Scheer
Admiral Graf Spee
Built under the limitations of the Treaty
of Versailles to replace Germany's obsolete
pre-dreadnoughts.
They could outrun what they could not outgun,
but were they battlecruisers?
*** Photo gallery of the Graf Spee after the River Plate ***
Pictures:
Scharnhorst
Gneisenau
The 11.1" gun, small by 1930's standards,
was used to expedite construction.
Were they under-gunned fast battleships,
or battlecruisers?
*** Some images of the Scharnhost wreck!!
***
Pictures:
12 unnamed vessels
An improved Deutschland Class, capible of
33 knots.
Designed as a commerce raider, but it sure
looks like a cruiser killer.
Pictures:
3 unnamed vessels O, P, and Q
Officially designated as battlecruisers,
these ships were never laid down.
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