Nazi long-range naval surface battlegroups

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The German Surface Fleet was not so expensive, due to the cancelation of the Z-Plan, which was the expensive part of the rearmamentprogram. The Kriegsmarine always was the third armed force in line of getting budgets for expansion. Most went to the Wehrmacht (some 75% of all defensebudget), Luftwaffe, some 15%m Navy, some 7 % and new technology another 7%, leaving 1% left for non designated elements, such as Miltary Staff and so on. Of this samll share, the Kriegsmarine had to construct and refit both surfaceships and submarines.
Just to clearify, when you write Wehrmacht here, you actually mean the Heer (the army). The Wehrmacht includes all three branches of the armed forces, but not the Waffen-SS.
Otherwise this whole sentance makes no sense at all.
 
1942.

OK - the USN joins the RN. After a very one-sided fight against Tirpitz and friends, US/CW morale recieves a boost after Pearl Harbor and Singapore...and the German Navy has its budget significantly reduced for FY 1943...
 
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