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Part One - Introduction
The POD is 31st January 1933 the day after Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor.
In this timeline the newly installed Nazi Government gives the Rechsmarine instructions to initiate a two-stage expansion. The first stage was the largest fleet that could be built in five years and then in the next five years transform the emergency fleet into the balanced fleet that Raeder and co wanted.
This forced the admirals to order improved versions of existing designs in the first five years which were armed with existing weapons and propelled by existing machinery to expedite production. The new designs incorporating new technology would have to wait until the second phase. However, this did have the advantage that innovations like high pressure boilers would were properly tested and the faults corrected before they were put into production.