kriegsmarine

This is a random idea but it suddenly occurred to me. I think the consensus of many students of naval history is that the Littorio-class battleships of the Regia Marina were fine ships, heavily armed, fast and well protected. They most certainly were more modern and capable then Germany's...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Berlin_(Atlantic) This is the Kriegsmarine operation in question. In essence, what is the best case scenario for the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in this surface raid, and what changes would be needed to ensure this scenario? And what effect could this have...

During Operation JUNO in the course of the 1940 Norwegian campaign, the German battleships/battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau encountered HMS Glorious and her two escort destroyers, Ardent and Acasta. This did not go well for the British. HOWEVER: The resulting events meant that...

This is not that complicated. As many of us know, IOTL HMS Rodney contributed largely to the sinking of the Bismarck. Now try to make it so that she does in Bismarck's sister as well. Timing, context and method are up to your choosing. Nothing ASB is allowed though. Bonus points if Rodney...

So in our world, the Kriegsmarine was never really able to compete with the British or American navies (The Soviet Navy is another story). However, what if, in an alternate timeline, the German Navy were up to snuff? When I say that, I mean large and powerful enough to almost match the British...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland-class_cruiser AKA when the Germans decided to make the super-duper heavy cruiser The Deutschland-class was politically very effective, and had a lot of combat potential; it was misused, though, and had a lot of shortcomings. I am thinking of a timeline...

The POD for this is that the German light cruisers Nürnberg and Leipzig are not torpedoed by HMS Salmon on 13 December 1939, for whatever reason. This means that they are able to participate in Operation Weserübung, the German invasion of Norway, in April 1940. The troop-carrying warships are...

As it says on the tin. In OTL work was suspended in june 1940. What if it wasn't but instead work on the Tirpiz was suspended (and thus the Tirpitz was never completed)? I guess the Graf Zeppelin could have been completed in late 1940 or early 1941. But then? What could she have done? It's...

In the lead-up to WW2, the German Kriegsmarine faced the problem of trying to design a series of ships it had absolutely no experience with: the fleet destroyer. After some thought what they produced were the 4 ships of the Type 1934 class, and the 12 ships of the Type 1934A class...

Second of the Scharnhorst class, Gneisenau was an unlucky ship, meeting her demise as an active combat ship due to an unlucky bomb hit in February 1942, after the Channel Dash. However, perusing her Wikipedia page, this comes up...

Hello everyone! So this is my first time ever posting on AH.com, and I wanted to start with a subject that has always interested me: the Kriegsmarine. I know there have been a lot of threads on this website about this navy, and I know that it has not a chance in hell of winning the Second...

I've read a lot of threads about how the Kriegsmarine of the 2nd World War could have performed better in the Atlantic, and all of them end with the unanimous conclusion: "They're still screwed". So this thread will ask the complete opposite: what if the Reich's leadership took one look at the...

Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen ------------------ "War is not as the people at home imagine it, with a hurrah and a roar; it is very serious, very grim." "Where der Kaiser failed, Der Führer succeeded. Where our brothers fell in battle, our sons rose in triumph." "Every pilot...

I became a fan of alternate history many years ago. Turtledove was a major reason for me becoming interested in the genre, with his Southern Victory and his Worldwar series being the ones that really drew me in. But there was one collection of stories that introduced me to the concept of...

The German navy, especially the surface navy, in both world wars never really got the chance to shine. In the first, they spent the majority of the war bottled up in port and were forced to retreat in the large battles they did participate in. In the second, they were laughably outnumbered and...

Inspired by the Luftwaffe thread. Germany have historically been a land power, and were only powerful at sea for a brief decade in the early 20th Century. Their performance in WW2 was poor, in part due to the fact that Hitler concentrated on the Heer and the LW. Their major surface combatants...

Considering his past in the Navy and his efficiency, what would happen if Heydrich was made Oberbefehlshaber der Kriegsmarine in 1935 instead of Erich Raeder ? Would he put greater emphasis on U-Boats or a Surface fleet ? How would it affect the battle of the Atlantic ?

In a scenario where Britain decides to sue for peace in 1940 (let's say Dunkirk is a massive disaster for the British) and the USSR is defeated in TTL's Barbarossa and pushed behind the A-A line, what happens to the structure of the German Armed Forces? Does the Waffen-SS replace the Heer as the...

In a scenario akin to the fine stories by @varyar where Britain sues for peace after a Dunkirk disaster (hey, it's alliterative), the Nazis defeat the USSR, pushing them behind the Urals, and end up in a Cold War with the Americans and friends, what would the military of a modern-day Nazi...

I know what you're thinking: "you're rebooting this TL again?" You see, no matter how muc I tried to make it work, there was no simply no way the opening scenario could happen, and simply editing the whole opening post would create confusion. So, I simply decided to start over once more. So...