The Battleships Württemberg and Sachsen
The Battle Cruisers Fürst Bismarck and Graf Spee
along with 10 of the Cöln II Class small Cruisers .
And then they could not replace this ship for 20 years .
How would this change the Naval history of WWII
They get these ships rather then the fleet they were allowed to have in 1919 .
http://www.german-navy.de/hochseeflotte/ships/index.html
The only reason that the pocket battleships could be build was they were replacing that were 20 years old at that time .
hi,
the entente can do what it want in 1919... but forcing the germans to build certain ships?
no way... the maximum they can do is to say "we forbid that you build any ship with a tonnage of xxx tonns and y inch calibre
they also can say "we forbid to build ships we do not allow you"
but they cannot force the germans to BUILD ships.
sorry id i misunderstood your intention
the pocketbattleships are a gap in the treaty... nothing wrong with it
if the treaty is more harsh - they can find another gap or they find out none, but in the end every treaty that forbid big german ships will improve the situation for the germans
a.) they will concentrate on subs in the second they can do
b.) their hate againt the entente will be even bigger, cause if you violate national souveranity in such way you destroy any chance of peace. Basically you create an enemy that will kill you in the first second you give him a chance. And this enemy is economical far more stronger.
the only chance for you to avoid this is to destroy germany total (like the allies planned after ww2.
but without germany europe is to weak, economical no customer and the effect for the countries that did this is much worser. so in the long run a better german navy had improved the situation for the later allies. the same is true for the army.
you need an asb scenario (if you stay in the real context about the political thinking of this time) to avoid the comeback of germany - if you do this, you have civil uprisings and communism... with this you will face in some times germany AND russia united as communist parts to destroy the evil imperialistc devils.