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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The German Navy or Deutsche Marine () is the navy of Germany and part of the Bundeswehr.
		It was known as the War Navy (Kriegsmarine) from 1935 to 1945.
		The German Navy is commanded by the Chief of the Naval Staff in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=German_Navy (804 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - The Kiel Mutiny
		The Kiel Mutiny was triggered by secret German Navy plans to launch a final suicide attack upon the British Royal Navy as the war reached its conclusion at the end of October 1918.
		Such was the air of widespread discontent that a group of parliamentary socialists led by Philipp Scheidemann proclaimed the onset of revolution on 9 November, an action which finally sealed the fate of both the Kaiser and the war's closure.
		The financial cost of the war is said to have amounted to almost $38 billion for Germany alone; Britain spent $35 billion, France $24 billion, Russia $22 billion, USA $22 billion and Austria-Hungary $20 billion.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/kielmutiny.htm (465 words)

	German Navy to patrol Lebanese coast - The Boston Globe
		German Navy to patrol Lebanese coast - The Boston Globe
		Merkel hailed the operation's ``historic importance." She said it is particularly significant that Israel itself has urged German forces to join United Nations efforts to impose peace on the battered Israel-Lebanon border, scene of fierce fighting in July and August between Israeli troops and Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah guerrillas.
		But polls suggest a majority of Germans oppose the dispatch of warships and boats to such troubled waters, fearing that the country will be dragged into the bitter conflict between the Jewish state and Arabs.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/09/21/german_navy_to_patrol_lebanese_coast (990 words)

	German Navy Ships--Scharnhorst (1939-1943)
		Unfortunately for the Germans, their orders were decoded by the British, who sent a superior force to intercept.
		In a three-hour battle in the frigid Arctic seas, the German battleship was battered by gunfire and sunk by torpedoes.
		German battleship Scharnhorst firing her forward 283mm guns, during the engagement with the British aircraft carrier Glorious and her escorts, 8 June 1940.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/germany/gersh-s/scharn2.htm (837 words)

	German Navy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		By the end of the First World War the German Navy was one of the largest in the world.
		German shipyards had difficulty producing the ships ordered by Hitler and on the outbreak of the Second World War the German Navy only had two battleships, two battlecruisers, three armoured cruisers, three heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, 22 destroyers and 59 submarines.
		Adolf Hitler grew increasingly disillusioned with the performance of the German Navy and after the Luetzow and Admiral Hipper failed to stop a large Arctic convoy he accused his commander of incompetence.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWnavyG.htm (1890 words)

	The U.S. Navy Cryptanalytic Bombe Exhibit
		The U.S. Navy's Cryptanalytic Bombe is the culmination of years of work and the efforts of mathematicians and engineers from Poland, England, and the United States.
		It was the solution to the problem of the German's World War II cipher machine Enigma, and it led to the Allies' successes in the battle of the Atlantic and the war in Europe.
		Within a year, NCR civilians, Navy sailors, and women in the Navy, known as WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) began building and shipping the new Bombes to Washington, DC Between September 1943 and March 1945, 121 Bombes were installed at the Navy's Communications Annex in Washington DC.
	www.nsa.gov /museum/museu00025.cfm (506 words)

	Worldandnation: German navy joins war on terror
		The craft, along with five German speedboats expected to leave later this week on transport ships, are due to reach the Horn of Africa in about three weeks.
		German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has urged caution in seeking new targets in the campaign to destroy international terror groups.
		German officers were among an 11-nation advance team that arrived in Kabul late Tuesday to assess logistics for the full-scale arrival of foreign troops expected this month.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/01/03/news_pf/Worldandnation/German_navy_joins_war.shtml (354 words)

	German Navy Escorted Warships Headed for Iraq \| Germany \| Deutsche Welle \| 10.11.2006
		The stated mission of the German navy during Operation Enduring Freedom was to examine suspicious ships at the Horn of Africa in order to prevent possible weapons shipments.
		The German navy has been told to monitor the trade and transport of goods which could be used to support terrorism.
		German soldiers are engaged in eleven foreign missions.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,2144,2234984,00.html (658 words)

	German Navy - Bundesmarine
		The primary areas of operation of the German navy (Bundesmarine) in the event of war are the Baltic Sea and the North Sea.
		Until 1990 the navy's mission had been to block the Baltic approaches on behalf of NATO to prevent the deployment of the Soviet Baltic Fleet in the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
		Under the chief of staff of the German navy are three major commands: the Fleet Command at Gluecksburg on the Baltic Sea; the Naval Office at Rostock, responsible for enlisted personnel, schools, armament, and the medical service; and the Naval Logistics Command at Wilhelmshaven.
	www.germanculture.com.ua /library/facts/bl_navy.htm (706 words)

	The World at War
		Now the Navy's allied ships of steel were to attempt the time and time repeated feat again, against Nazi Germans with the largest amphibious invasion army you'd ever read about in the pages of history books.
		Another Australian Navy person had duties on board a motor minesweeper, which was ahead of the bombardment flotilla pounding the eastern section of the beachhead area during the early stages of the invasion.
		The Australian Navy is represented in the warships of battleships and cruisers firing steel tonnage broadsides at the enemy strongpoints on the coastline and inland.
	worldatwar.net /article/australiannavyreserve (1969 words)

	Between Fleet Scouts & Commerce Raiders
		While integral to the German operation, U-boats failed in that engagement, proving unable to attack the relatively fast moving British Royal Navy warships-specifically the battle cruisers of British Admiral David Beatty-successfully.
		In the interwar exercises of the German Navy, and as late as its 1940 operations off Norway against Allied warships and convoys bound for the USSR in 1942, U-boats and surface warships tried to cooperate as teams to enhance the impact of both the surface and subsurface warships.
		German doctrine admitted a mutually supporting function, for both submarines and surface warships, to magnify the power of both against enemy combatants and merchant vessels.
	www.chinfo.navy.mil /navpalib/cno/n87/usw/issue_27/scouts.html (2069 words)

	Museum of WWII -Virtual Tour- The German Military
		A sense of the traditions and symbolisms created by the Nazis and the German military is stressed in the opening part of this exhibit with an extensive display of medals and awards, many signed by Hitler, photo albums, Field Marshal's batons, and other symbols of rank and power, including a collection of daggers and swords.
		Although deemed totally secure by the Nazis, the German codes were being deciphered by the British early in the war, giving the Allies a major tactical victory in the area of military intelligence.
		Artifacts from Admiral Karl Doenitz, head of the German U-Boats and later the head of the German state after the death of Hitler, including a museum copy of his field marshal baton, submariner medals and a U-Boat torpedo timer.
	www.museumofworldwarii.com /TourText/Area03_GermanMilitary.htm (1042 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Prince Heinrich of Prussia
		Naturally Heinrich could not be simply dismissed from the navy given his relationship with the Kaiser; he was instead replaced as High Seas Fleet commander and promoted to Grand Admiral, with an appointment as Inspector-General of the Navy.
		The outbreak of war in August 1914 brought Heinrich an appointment in command of German forces in the Baltic Sea; a less than prestigious role given his background.
		In spite of the German revolution and the proclamation of a German republic, Heinrich was permitted to remain in Germany until his death in 1929.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/heinrich.htm (292 words)

	German Flag Store - buy flags of Germany
		The term German Empire (Deutsches Reich) commonly refers to Germany, from its consolidation as a unified nation-state on January 18, 1871,under Kaiser (Emperor) Wilhelm I until the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II on November 9, 1918.
		The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the (Pronounced Vye-Mar, and in German it is known as the "Weimarer Republik").
		According to the navy regulation, the federal service flag (Bundesdienstflagge) is used by auxiliary ships of the navy, ships leased or chartered by the Bundeswehr (if ordered by the Minister of Defense), and ships not yet in service or out of service.
	www.germanflag.us /downloads.html (802 words)

	1939 - 1945 : Historical periods : History : Royal Navy
		The German navy had not expected to fight until 1944 and was totally unprepared for war.
		The Germans were forced to come to Italy's aid with aircraft, and later submarines, which caused the British much difficulty and damage.
		This was commanded by the Royal Navy's greatest exponent of amphibious warfare, Admiral Bertram Ramsay, and most of the warships, from battleships to infantry landing craft, were British.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server.php?show=nav.3862&outputFormat=print (1040 words)

	The Great War . Chapter 3 . Overview \| PBS
		In France, a failed offensive in the spring of 1917 resulted in a mutiny not against the war but against the way it was waged by the general staff.
		With the help of the Americans -- who declared war on Germany in 1917 -- the Allies then engaged in a highly successful set of offensives of their own.
		Germany's civilian support for the war eventually collapsed, and a mutiny by the German navy that sparked civil riots sweep through the cities.
	www.pbs.org /greatwar/chapters/ch3_overview.html (254 words)

	1914 - 1939 : Historical periods : History : Royal Navy
		In August the Germans tried again to trap a part of the Grand Fleet as they had done in May. There was no contact between the fleets but the Germans were lucky to escape annihilation.
		The main amphibious assault of the war occurred in the Dardanelles in 1915.
		Although there was no crushing naval victory, the Royal Navy's command of the sea allowed troops and supplies to flow to the British armies in France and Flanders that defeated the might of the German Army.
	www.royal-navy.mod.uk /server.php?show=nav.3859&outputFormat=print (1102 words)

	German Navy Warned of NATO Call-up for Iraq \| Current Affairs \| Deutsche Welle \| 15.12.2002
		German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder may find himself in yet another embarrassing position regarding decisions on Iraq as the German navy gets warning of a potential call-up under its NATO obligations.
		According to a report on Saturday in the German newspaper Die Welt, the German navy, as part of its NATO obligations, could be mobilized in the event of war against Iraq, the paper said on Saturday.
		In the article, it is suggested that German ships, as part of the NATO force currently based in the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, could be enrolled to escort the US fleet carrying troops or supplies towards Iraq in the event of war.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,2144,714409,00.html (482 words)

	Ufa and Hollywood > German-Hollywood Connection
		The story of German cinema’s rise and fall is largely the story of the rise and fall of Ufa, at one time Germany’s largest studio and one of the largest in the world.
		German films, rightly or wrongly, developed a general reputation in America for being heavy and too intellectual (a stigma that endures to this day).
		In fact, Goebbels was forced at various times to remind the German film community that he was the judge of what a “good” film was, and both he and Hitler found it necessary to ban some two dozen films in the 12 years of the Third Reich.
	www.germanhollywood.com /ufa.html (1896 words)

	German Navy Proves Hydrofoils Unfit
		This report is an English translation summary of the German Navy's conclusions from trials conducted during 1940 to 1944 on various designs.
		The report was written by operational officers of the German E-Boats who studied the development and participated in the trials of this new type of high speed motorboat.
		In 1941 the project was taken over by the German Navy for development of a fast mine-layer, torpedo-boat, and air-sea rescue boat.
	www.foils.org /trag.htm (1980 words)

	Periscope Reunited with WWII German U-boat
		From there, it was accessioned and cataloged into the Navy's central artifact database in Washington, D.C. Finally, they facilitated the legal and logistical issues with the loan of the periscope from the Navy to U-505.
		For the rest of the war, her capture was one of the most closely guarded secrets.
		Had the Germans learned of it, they would have known that their secret Enigma U-boat communications codes were compromised.
	www.navy.mil /search/display.asp?story_id=5714 (787 words)

	It was both the RAF and the Navy who halted the German invasion \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		The Germans stayed away because while the Royal Navy existed they had not a hope in hell of capturing these islands.
		The Royal Navy had earlier suffered grievously at the hands of the Germans during the Dunkirk evacuation, with six destroyers sunk and at least eight more damaged by aerial bombing attacks.
		It is apparent, though, that the Germans simply could not risk an invasion when both RAF Fighter Command and the Royal Navy fleet remained in existence.
	www.guardian.co.uk /secondworldwar/story/0,,1867397,00.html (725 words)

	German Memorial Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		German Officers assigned at the Naval War College have traditionally used this opportunity to conduct a memorial service and lay wreaths at the graves of two German sailors who perished in World War II and are buried in the Newport Cemetery.
		In the summer of 1960, a group of divers entered the sunken submarine and brought the remains of one of the crew to the surface.
		The Joyce rescued 13 of the German sailors, one of whom, Petty Officer Heder, later died from wounds received.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /ncc/Events/german_memorial_service.htm (310 words)

	The Navy of the Postwar Era
		The escort ships used by the Navy were a diverse and underpowered group of torpedo boats dating from the early days of the war or even earlier.
		The surface navy was not the only force to see dramatic increases in size.
		Even though the long battle over the future of the navy had been decided, there was still the question of what to do with the old navy.
	www.russianwarrior.com /1947_History_Navy.htm (1468 words)

	The Great War . Historians . Jay Winter \| PBS
		But once the German navy decided to interdict supplies going from North America to Britain and then from Britain to France, then any ship could conceivably be carrying munitions, because munitions meant almost anything.
		It was clearly a ship that could have been a danger to the German war effort, and the German navy didn't want to take the risk.
		And the way in which German forces waged that war was so important in generating a propaganda campaign of hatred: not of the German leadership, but of the German nation as a whole – of everybody who stood behind the German flag and were responsible for those who were drowned in the Lusitania.
	www.pbs.org /greatwar/historian/hist_winter_12_lusitania.html (375 words)

	German navy
		The primary areas of operation of the navy (Bundesmarine) in the event of war are the Baltic Sea and the North Sea.
		German capabilities are being improved by the introduction of four `Type 212' submarines with air-independent propulsion.
		Severe delays to deliveries of the NH-90, mean that the German Navy has had to keep the Lynx in service longer than anticipated, and even had to order an additional seven Mk.88As in 1996 for the 'Bradenburg' frigates.
	homepage.eircom.net /~steven/interest.htm (2076 words)

	Immigration... German: Shadows of War
		For German Americans, the 20th century was a time of growth and consolidation; their numbers increased, their finances became more stable, and Americans of German heritage rose to positions of great power and distinction.
		For German American culture, however, the new century was a time of severe setbacks--and a devastating blow from which it has never fully recovered.
		After the war, one more surge of German immigrants arrived in the United States, as survivors of the conflict sought to escape its grim aftermath.
	memory.loc.gov /learn/features/immig/german8.html (712 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		In the Royal Navy, these ships were used primarily to act as blockaders, and convoy escorts to fill the gap left by inadequate numbers of light cruisers.
		In World War I the Germans did use several liners, but these were ships that were far from home when war broke out and had no hope of getting past the blockade and back to Germany.
		A few other navies operated such ships during wartime, but the primary users of these ships were the British and the Germans.
	www.steelnavy.com /1250GermanRaiders.htm (662 words)

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