Challenge: German Black Sea Fleet

With a POD after 1919, have a significant German squadron permanently stationed in the Black Sea today. It must have at least one bona fide battleship still in commission.
 
Germany and the USSR come to a negotiated treaty during WWII before the Western Allies land in France. After the failure of the D-day landings Nazi Germany successfully negotiates a peace deal with the US, UK, and the other western Allies (sans France). Leaving a multi-sided cold war.

The Germans in their peace with the Soviets kept the western Ukraine including the Black Sea port of Odessa which becomes the headquarters to the Kriegmarine's Black Sea fleet. The Black Sea Fleet tends to be only above the Med. fleet in getting ships but the battleship Adolf Hitler, the first in the class of the 1960s era battleships, named after the recently deceased leader, is permanently stationed there.

How's that?
 
Germany forces a peace of stalemate in the West in 1919 and maintains its pre-eminent position in the East after the conclusion of a peace treaty. It holds onto the ex-Russian battleships, rather than hand them over to its client state in the Ukraine, and maintains them at Odessa and Sevastopol (in the Tatar Republic of the Crimea)

Then, er, developments from then onwards til today ! I can't make up 8 decades off the top of my head !

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
Germany forces a peace of stalemate in the West in 1919 and maintains its pre-eminent position in the East after the conclusion of a peace treaty. It holds onto the ex-Russian battleships, rather than hand them over to its client state in the Ukraine, and maintains them at Odessa and Sevastopol (in the Tatar Republic of the Crimea)

Then, er, developments from then onwards til today ! I can't make up 8 decades off the top of my head !

Best Regards
Grey Wolf

That's a good solution, but it's a POD before 1919.
 
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