https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...deration-from-the-start.421976/#post-15251820
Who cares what the British want....as I calculated on the above thread, if there was any value behind the British agreement to allow Germany 35% fleet , that would mean they were allowed to build
Looks like 23 by 1939 with another 11 building....so short answer was yes they could build them and were allowed to build them by treaty....plus a lot more!
Two naive mistakes here.
The first is related with the fact that we're talking about Scharnhorst-class vessels here. They are capital ships; battlecruisers, not cruisers. They will never ever be compared with CAs or CLs.
The second is more systemic and fundamental. You are assuming the 35% clause applies to the number of vessels in a class. On the contrary, it applies to the tonnage of vessels in a class.
So, even if you were right - which you aren't - that the Germans could have a 35% ratio of Scharnhorsts for every 100% of British CAs, then the Germans could get one Scharnhorst (30,000 tons) for every 9 10,000-ton British cruisers. This is roughly the top displacement for British heavy cruisers. If you start taking into account light cruisers, you'll need even more British hulls to make up for three times the tonnage of a Scharnhorst.
Assuming that each and every one of those 66 British cruisers of 1939 displaced 10,000 tons (which they didn't), and further assuming that the british would be so foolish to class the Scharnhorst as if it were such a cruiser, you'd get 9 (nine) such units under the treaty, not 23.