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Upon seizing and consolidating power, Hitler informs Raeder no more new combat ships bigger than a torpedo boat are to be built. He can keep the ones he has, and even repair them and keep them up to spec, but no steel, materials and men will be invested in bringing in new ships to the fleet - not capital ships, not light cruisers or destroyers, not submarines.

Exception to this were made at the insistence of Raeder - existing ships under construction, primarily the Admiral Graf Spee, would be completed, and a force of "a dozen or so" U-Boats were to eventually be built "for training purposes".

Thus, when WW2 began, the Kriegsmarine looked like this:

3 Deutschland-class heavy cruisers (the "pocket battleships"):
3 Pre-Dreadnoughts (2 Deutschland-class and 1 Braunschweig-class):
(all of them modernized, with new propulsion and additional AA)

5 light cruisers:
12 torpedoboats (almost akin to mini-destroyers)

10 Type VIIA U-Boats
9 Type VIIIB U-Boats
(with Raeder really stretching the definition of "a dozen or so")

Now, what can we expect from this? There was one thread somewhat on the subject I could find, but it assumed the would be NO ships, and so things like the Invasion of Norway were off the table, as was forcing the British to adopt convoys, with the associated drop in overall tonnage shipped over time. Here however, none of those are the case - there are still ample ships to invade southern Norway and enough U-Boats to scare the British into adopting convoys.

On that thread, it was speculated that the saving generated from not investing in the Kriegsmarine would have been enough for 3 panzer and 5 infantry divisions. Would that have been the case? And if so, what effects, if any, can we expect from that? Furthermore, what about the global implications?
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