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	1939: Germany - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		German pressure was also exercised upon Hungary, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, to make them completely dependent politically and economically upon the German Reich and to make it impossible for Great Britain to include them among the states to whom promises of protection against German aggression were given.
		German labor problems showed their seriousness in an increase in the number of hours of work, and in a decree by Marshall Hermann Goering on Feb. 15, 1939, which introduced forced labor for national construction jobs and so put a stop to employer competition for labor through higher wages.
		The German goal, according to this statement to the workers, was 'victory, victory and still again victory and therewith the complete destruction of England and the domination of her money bags over the rest of the people on the globe.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461501239/1939_Germany.html (6133 words)

	Science Fair Projects - German battleship Deutschland
		Deutschland ("Germany"), later re-named Lützow, was the first German large armoured ship built after World War I.
		Even so, the Deutschland was 600 tons overweight, although for political reasons its announced displacement was always given as the 10,000 tons of the treaty limit.
		The class was termed Panzerschiff ("armoured ship"); they were designated "pocket battleships" by the British because of their characteristics: their guns (6 x 28 cm in two turrets) were substantially bigger than those of the heavy cruisers of her time, but they were faster (and much less armoured) than the standard battleships.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/DKM_Deutschland (623 words)

	German Navy Ships--Schlesien (Battleship, 1908-1945)
		She served the Imperial German Navy as a combat ship until 1917, and was thereafter employed as a barracks and training ship.
		Photographed from the battleship Scharnhorst during gunnery exercises in the western Baltic in late January 1940.
		Battleship Schlesien is at left, and battleship Hessen is in the right background.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/germany/gersh-s/schlsn.htm (441 words)

	German , Nurnberg, Lutzow, Admiral Hipper, Graf Spee, Scheer, Tirpitz, Bismarck, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Graf, ...
		German U-boats and two pocket battleships sail for their war stations in the Atlantic late August.
		Battleship “Warspite” and nine destroyers were sent into the Narvik fiords to finish off the remaining German ships.
		German Heavy Warships and Raiders - Pocket battleship "Admiral Scheer" was hunting in the South Atlantic, while battlecruisers "Scharnhorst" and "Gneisenau" in Germany and heavy cruiser "Hipper" in Brest, France prepared to sail.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsGermanWarships.htm (6940 words)

	Battleship Bismarck, German Kriegsmarine
		In 1864, together with Austria and a few of the German federal states, he took Prussia to war against Denmark over the proposal of the latter to incorporate Schleswig into the Danish dominion in breach of the London Treaty of 1852.
		The concept of the enlarged North German Federation was the basis for the new German Reich.
		The battleships, King George V and Rodney, sailed in line abreast about 550 meter (600 yards) apart toward the last reported position of the enemy.
	www.battleshipbismarck.com /bismarckclass/misc/01_name.php (1178 words)

	1939: Norway - Archive Article - MSN Encarta
		The German press caused anxiety in Norway during the first weeks of April by asserting that the German Schwabenland expedition had discovered this territory, but the Reich made no official protest against Norway's claims.
		The following day the German Government protested vigorously at Oslo, but the Norwegian Government on Nov. 5 rejected the German note and announced two days later that the 18 officers and men of the German crew would be placed in a concentration camp at Kongsvinger Castle for the duration of the war.
		Norway was host to three important international meetings during August: Aug. 14-20, the Thirty-fifth Conference of the Inter-parliamentary Union, at Oslo; Aug. 25-30, the Twelfth International Studies Conference, at Bergen; and Aug. 30-31, a meeting of the Scandinavian Foreign Ministers, at Oslo.
	encarta.msn.com /sidebar_461501444/1939_Norway.html (838 words)

	German battleship Deutschland biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The class was termed Panzerschiff ("armoured ship"); they were designated "pocket battleships" by the British because of their characteristics.
		After the start of World War II, it was renamed from Deutschland to Lützow in November, 1939 because Adolf Hitler feared that it might be sunk in the imminent invasion of Norway, causing a significant psychological and propoganda defeat if a ship with such a name were lost.
		In February, 1940 it was re-classified as a heavy cruiser, and in April of that year it participated in the invasion of Norway.
	www.biography.ms /German_battleship_Deutschland.html (364 words)

	German pocket battleship Deutschland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Deutschland (later re-named Lützow), was the lead ship of her class that served in the German Kriegsmarine before and during World War II.
		The class was termed Panzerschiff ("armoured ship"); they were called "pocket battleships" by the British because of their characteristics: their guns (6 × 28 cm in two turrets) were substantially bigger than those of the heavy cruisers of her time, but they were much smaller (and much less armoured), but faster than the standard battleships.
		During the Spanish Civil War the Deutschland was deployed to the Spanish coast in support of Franco's Nationalists in a total of seven operations between 1936 and 1939.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_pocket_battleship_Deutschland (771 words)

	War Documentary Descriptions F - G
		The German Army, Navy, Luftwaffe, and elite paratroop and Waffen SS divisions are shown, together with their famous commanders, waging a desperate struggle to drive the Allied landing troops back into the sea.
		German soldiers of Paratroop Regiment 6 and the Götz von Berlichingen panzer grenadier division in close combat in dense underbrush.
		German bombers and patrol boats engage the Allied transport fleet during nighttime sorties.
	www.germanvideo.com /war/war_desc_f-g.html (2856 words)

	German, U-boat, U-39, U39, U.39, Courageous, Ark Royal Fortune, Forester, Foxhound, Firedrake, HMS
		In Norway, troops landed at Oslo, Kristiansand and Bergen in the south, Trondheim in the centre and Narvik in the north.
		German Navy forces included a pocket battleship, six cruisers and 14 destroyers for landings at the five Norwegian ports, with battlecruisers “Scharnhorst” and “Gneisenau” covering the two most northerly landings.
		German Codes - 'Ultra' was now breaking the Luftwaffe Enigma codes with some regularity, and early in the month had its first major breakthrough when supporting evidence for the Knickebein navigation aid for bombers was obtained.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsUboats.htm (4036 words)

	Scharnhorst History
		It was planed to do this conversion after the construction of the next generation of battleships (Battleship F & G) in 1940, but the start of the war prevented this.
		Battleship D, later called Scharnhorst, was laid down in May 1935 at the Kriegsmarine Shipyard in Wilhelmshaven and commissioned in January 1939.
		The sister ship Gneisenau (Battleship E) was laid down in March 1935 at the Deutsche Werke in Kiel and commissioned in May 1938.
	www.german-navy.de /kriegsmarine/ships/battleships/scharnhorst/history.html (382 words)

	Chronology 1937
		Despite German government assurances, tensions arose in Spanish Morocco upon the unsubstantiated news of the landing of German forces in the colony.
		As the number of German refugees increased, the League of Nations sponsored a second conference in Geneva to draft a convention to provide German ex-patriates with a legal status.
		The German government sent a note to the Belgian government, promising that as long as the Belgians abstained from military action against Germany, the German government would guarantee the inviolability and integrity of Belgium.
	www.indiana.edu /~league/1937.htm (7201 words)

	Hauner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One battleship was in the Arctic, four in the Baltic, and six in the Black Sea.
		In June the number of battleships was increased to twenty-four and that of the light cruisers reduced to twenty; there were now to be 182 destroyers and 344 submarines.
		Soviet naval aviators scored a few hits on enemy targets, including a spectacular one on the German pocket battleship Deutschland, but because of their extremely poor ability to identify between enemy and friendly ships they usually posed a greater danger to the Republican ships they were supposed to protect.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/Review/2004/Spring/art4-sp04.htm (14457 words)

	World Battleships List: German Dreadnoughts
		Scharnhorst and Bismarck met their end at sea, Graf Spee was scuttled to avoid a battle, and the remainder of the fleet rotted in port after the collapse of the German surface fleet, eventually being destroyed by bombing raids.
		Deutschland varied in the style and arrangement of the superstructure.
		Really were small battleships, with smaller guns and armor on the battleship scale.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/battleships/germ_dr.htm (2285 words)

	Kriegsmarine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In response, the pocket battleship Deutschland was bombed and damaged on May 29, 1937 by Spanish Republican forces at Ibiza.
		The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent German declaration of war against the USA in December 1941 led to another phase of the Battle of the Atlantic.
		The Battle of the Barents Sea was an attempt by a German naval force to attack an Allied Arctic convoy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kriegsmarine (2381 words)

	Ibiza- The Bombing of the Panzerschiff 'Deutschland'-1937
		At the time of the bombing vessels of the Republican fleet had been sighted by the German Panzerschiff, whose first reaction was that the attack had been carried out by the Republican destroyer flotilla.
		At 5pm the funeral procession of the 24 German Naval ratings went through the Dockyard North Gate with the coffins draped with the Nazi German Flags and carried, two to a lorry, on motor vehicles provided by the Royal Army Service Corp. A Royal Naval Guard from HMS Arethusa escorted each lorry.
		The attack on the Deutschland and the deaths caused a flurry of international political activity and on 11th June the ship returned to Gibraltar to pick up 20 sailors who were fit to travel and the bodies of those who had died and who had been disinterred.
	www.ibiza-hotels.com /history (1423 words)

	German battleship Deutschland (1875) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Deutschland was Kaiser class armoured frigates designed by Sir Edward Reed.
		She was fitted with a sailing rig which was removed during refitting at the Imperial Dockyard, Wilhelmshaven, from 1894 to 1897.
		She was struck from the German Imperial Navy list on May 21, 1906, and used as a target ship before being sold in 1908.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_battleship_Deutschland_(1875) (188 words)

	Bismark German Battleship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The name 'German' is (not precisely) sometimes also used for the various peoples that lived in Germany and other parts of Central Europe during Antiquity or during the period of the Holy RomanEmpire.
		Although some continuedto be used for shore bombardment and as missile platforms, the last battleships weredecommissioned in the late 1990s.
		The name "battleship" was initially given to first-, second-, and third-rate ships of the line during the age of sail.
	www.vermontreview.com /edge/49315-bismark%20german%20battleship.html (671 words)

	History of Steam Engine
		The Battleship Texas was built between 1911-14 by Newport News and Dry-Dock Co. At this time in our history the Panama Canal was completed, the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage and the Wright brothers had flown for the first time ten years earlier.
		HMS Dreadnought was built in 1906 and became the new standard in battleships that year due to her size (22,194 tons) which was in some instances twice the size of previously built battleships.
		An example of ship sizes built during the same time frame was the German battleship Deutschland which was launched in 1904 was 13,993 tons and a top speed of 18 knots.
	www.usstexasbb35.com /history_of_steam_engine.htm (1886 words)

	The Battleship Quiz - Answers
		One example is the "old battleships" engaged and sank the Fuso and Yamashiro at the battle of Surigao Straight in the Philippines in 1944.
		The Italian battleship Roma was sunk by the Germans on her way to surrender at Malta.
		She appeared as a tough dog, speeding into a fight, and the white wake off her bow was said to appear as a "bone" clenched in her teeth.
	www.battleship.org /html/Articles/Features/Quiz2.htm (1320 words)

	Imperial German Navy Deployment 1914
		BA: Preussen, Schlesien, Hessen, Lothringen Hannover, Schleswig-Holstein, Pommern, Deutschland (The Elsass and Braunschweig are in the Baltic.)
		German navy gunboats helped shore batteries shell the grounded IJN destroyer "Shirotae" later, and the Japanese "Torpedo Boat 33" sank after hitting a German mine.
		The original is in German, which I do not speak or read, apart from a knowledge of naval terminology.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/fdgn0001.htm (1583 words)

	First Blood - Page 2
		Although most of the young officers could live without the attention to attire and protocol demanded at special dinners, everybody agreed that the trouble of dressing for dinner was outweighed by the opportunity to meet two of the legends of the Terentrian Navy.
		The Germans knew their ship was doomed, and they were fighting for their lives.
		Deutschland was a decade newer than Sans Souci, bearing eleven-inch rifles instead of the heavy eight-inch rifles of Sans Souci.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Lyonesse/firstblood2.htm (4257 words)

	The Battleship Quiz
		The US entered the "battlecruiser" race late, after "fast battleships" forced them to be reclassified as "large cruisers." Name the six ships of this class, and the name of the two completed.
		True or false: It was not until the "second generation" battleships of the North Carolina class that the US Navy had 16 inch guns in service.
		True or False: When the British battleship Hood blew up, broke in half, and sank during the engagement with the Bismarck, this was the first time that a British battlecruiser was lost so suddenly.
	www.battleship.org /html/Articles/Features/Quiz.htm (869 words)

	Aircraft carriers now queens of the sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A torpedo from a Swordfish launched by the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal wrecked the steering rudder of the 50,000-ton heavily armored German battleship Bismarck, which just days before had sunk the giant battle-cruiser HMS Hood, pride of the British fleet, in eight minutes of gunfire.
		He was convinced that battleships at speed in the ocean could only be sunk from the air if the attacks managed the virtually impossible feat of dropping a bomb down one of their smoke stacks.
		There is accumulating evidence that, however, it may prove as vulnerable to submarines and sea-launched missiles as the old battleship was to aircraft-launched torpedoes.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/586154/posts (981 words)

	Deutschland
		February 5, 1931-The keel of the Deutschland is laid down in the Deutsche Werke shipyards of Kiel.
		March 14, 1935-The Deutschland leaves for South America as an engine endurance shakedown, arriving on April 19.
		The battleship is then ordered to Gibralter, where the British buried the dead soldiers, but the Germans ordered them later returned to Germany for burial.
	www.angelfire.com /ia/totalwar/kmsDeutschland.html (862 words)

	German battleship Admiral Scheer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Admiral Scheer, a pocket battleship, was built in 1933 and named after Admiral Reinhard Scheer.
		Its designation as a "Pocket" battleship was by the British in 1939.
		In German it is called a Panzerschiff (Armoured Ship) or a Deutschland class battleship.
	german-battleship-admiral-scheer.iqnaut.net (136 words)

	Chronology of World War II (1939)
		German troops occupy the Czech parts of Bohemia and Moravia.
		German pocket-battleship Deutschland slips through the North Sea, unobserved by the British.
		German radio makes public a proposed 16-point peace plan the government had proposed for Poland, claiming Poland refused to accept the terms.
	www.islandnet.com /~kpolsson/ww2hist/ww21939.htm (1732 words)

	ModelWarships.com Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Deutschland was renamed Lutzow by order of Hitler in Feb./40.
		The Deutschland/ /Lutzow was the luckiest of the pocket battleships Germany constructed.
		This is an excellent representation of the infamous German raiders that were dubbed "pocket battleships." Italeri/ Testor's also offered a 1/700 Graf Spee that is eerily similar to this kit however the Fujimi offering is molded much more crisply.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/ships/dkm/deutschland/deutschland.html (338 words)

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