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Deutschland-class cruiser

Index Deutschland-class cruiser

The Deutschland class was a series of three Panzerschiffe ("armored ships"), a form of heavily armed cruiser, built by the Reichsmarine officially in accordance with restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. [1]

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Abwehr

The Abwehr was the German military intelligence service for the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht from 1920 to 1945.

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Alaska-class cruiser

The Alaska class was a class of six large cruisers ordered before World War II for the United States Navy.

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Altmark Incident

The Altmark Incident (Norwegian: Altmark-affæren; German: Altmark-Zwischenfall) was a naval incident of World War II between British destroyers and the German tanker ''Altmark'', which happened on 16–17 February 1940.

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American Theater (World War II)

The American Theater describes a series of mostly minor areas of operations during World War II.

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Anglo-German Naval Agreement

The Anglo-German Naval Agreement of 18 June 1935 was a naval agreement between the United Kingdom and Germany regulating the size of the Kriegsmarine in relation to the Royal Navy.

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Anti-German sentiment

Anti-German sentiment (or Germanophobia) is defined as an opposition to or fear of Germany, its inhabitants, its culture and the German language.

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Antony Preston

Antony Preston (26 February 1938 – 25 December 2004) was an English naval historian and editor, specialising in the area of 19th and 20th-century naval history and warship design.

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Arctic convoys of World War II

The Arctic convoys of World War II were oceangoing convoys which sailed from the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union – primarily Arkhangelsk (Archangel) and Murmansk in Russia.

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Armed merchantman

An armed merchantman is a merchant ship equipped with guns, usually for defensive purposes, either by design or after the fact.

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Armored cruiser

The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Battle of Drøbak Sound

The Battle of Drøbak Sound took place in Drøbak Sound, the northernmost part of the outer Oslofjord in southern Norway, on 9 April 1940.

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Battle of Kolberg (1945)

The Battle of Kolberg or Battle of Kołobrzeg (also, battle for Festung Kolberg) was the taking of the city of Kolberg, now the city of Kołobrzeg, in German Pomerania by the Soviet Army and its Polish allies from Nazi German forces during the World War II East Pomeranian Offensive.

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Battle of the Atlantic

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945.

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Bermuda Base Command

The Bermuda Base Command was a command of the United States Army, established to defend the British Colony of Bermuda, located 640 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

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Blackburn Buccaneer

The Blackburn Buccaneer was a British carrier-borne attack aircraft designed in the 1950s for the Royal Navy (RN).

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Bombardment of Almería

The Bombardment of Almería was a naval action which took place on 31 May 1937, during the Spanish Civil War.

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Bordfliegergruppe 196

Embarked Air Group 196 (Bordfliegergruppe 196), was a unit of the German Air Force founded in 1937 and disbanded in 1945.

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Check-mate system

The check-mate system was a system of ship identification used by the Allies of World War II.

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Coastal defence ship

Coastal defence ships (sometimes called coastal battleships or coast defence ships) were warships built for the purpose of coastal defence, mostly during the period from 1860 to 1920.

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Commander of Ships of the Line

The Commander of Ships of the Line (Befehlshaber der Linienschiffe) was a naval command of the Reichsmarine, as well as briefly the Kriegsmarine, from 1930 through 1936.

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Commerce raiding

Commerce raiding is a form of naval warfare used to destroy or disrupt logistics of the enemy on the open sea by attacking its merchant shipping, rather than engaging its combatants or enforcing a blockade against them.

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Condor Legion

The Condor Legion (Legion Condor) was a unit composed of military personnel from the air force and army of Nazi Germany, which served with the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War of July 1936 to March 1939.

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Convoy HX 84

Convoy HX 84 was the 84th of the numbered series of Allied North Atlantic HX convoys of merchant ships from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Liverpool, England during the battle of the Atlantic.

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Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

The coronation of George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth and as Emperor and Empress of India took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 12 May 1937.

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Cruiser

A cruiser is a type of warship.

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December 13

No description.

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Deutsche Werke

Deutsche Werke was a German shipbuilding company founded in 1925 when Kaiserliche Werft Kiel and other shipyards were merged.

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Deutschland-class battleship

The Deutschland class was a group of five pre-dreadnought battleships built for the German Kaiserliche Marine.

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Diesel engine

The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine), named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel which is injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression (adiabatic compression).

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Dunkerque-class battleship

The Dunkerque-class battleship was a type of warship constructed for the French Navy in the 1930s.

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Duquesne-class cruiser

The Duquesne class was the first class of post Washington Treaty heavy cruisers built for the French Navy. They have been criticised by naval architects for having very little armour and being lightly built. However, they were considered to be good steamers and seaworthy vessels which could maintain indefinitely at half power.le Masson, pp.91–93.

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Eastern Fleet

The British Eastern Fleet (also known after 1944 as the East Indies Fleet and the Far East Fleet) was a fleet of the Royal Navy which existed between 1941 and 1971.

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Edward Fegen

Captain Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen, (8 October 1891 – 5 November 1940) was a Royal Navy officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Fairey Seafox

The Fairey Seafox was a 1930s British reconnaissance floatplane designed and built by Fairey for the Fleet Air Arm.

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Force de Raid

The Force de Raid (Raiding Force) was a French naval squadron formed at Brest during naval mobilization for World War II.

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Force K

Force K was the name of three British Royal Navy task forces during the Second World War.

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French battleship Richelieu

Richelieu was a French battleship and the lead ship of her class.

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French battleship Strasbourg

Strasbourg was the second and last battleship of the built for the French Navy before World War II.

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German cruiser Deutschland

Deutschland was the lead ship of her class of heavy cruisers (often termed a pocket battleship) which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II.

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German destroyer Z14 Friedrich Ihn

Z14 Friedrich Ihn was a built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in the mid-1930s.

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German destroyer Z15 Erich Steinbrinck

Z15 Erich Steinbrinck was a built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in the mid-1930s.

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German destroyer Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt

Z16 Friedrich Eckoldt was a built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in the late 1930s.

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German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele

The German destroyer Z2 Georg Thiele was one of four Type 1934-class destroyers built for the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during the mid-1930s.

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German destroyer Z3 Max Schultz

Z3 Max Schultz was one of four Type 1934 destroyers built for the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during the mid-1930s.

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German destroyer Z4 Richard Beitzen

The German destroyer Z4 Richard Beitzen was one of four Type 1934 destroyers built for the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) during the mid-1930s.

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German destroyer Z51

The German destroyer Z51 was the only ship of the Type 1942 destroyer class built for the Kriegsmarine.

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German involvement in the Spanish Civil War

German involvement in the Spanish Civil War of 1936 commenced with the outbreak of war in July 1936, with Adolf Hitler immediately sending in powerful air and armored units to assist General Francisco Franco and his Nationalist forces.

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German night fighter direction vessel Togo

The MS Togo was a German merchant ship that was launched in 1938. Requisitioned by Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine as Schiff 14, in April 1940 she participated in the invasion of Norway; in August 1940 was converted to a minelayer as part of the German plan to invade England; then from June 1941 she began conversion to the armed auxiliary cruiser (Hilfskreuzer) HSK Coronel. Following Coronels unsuccessful attempt in February 1943 to become the last German commerce raider of World War II, she was then used as a minesweeper (Sperrbrecher) before being recommissioned in late 1943 as NJL Togo, a night fighter direction vessel (Nachtjagdleitschiff), operating in the Baltic Sea. As NJL Togo, she was the second of the Kriegsmarines World War II radar ships, and the only one to survive the war. After the war, Togo passed through various changes of ownership, name and function before finally being wrecked off the Mexican coast in 1984.

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German tanker Altmark

Altmark was a German oil tanker and supply vessel, one of five of a class built between 1937 and 1939.

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German training ship Bremse

Bremse was built as an artillery training ship (Artillerieschulschiff) of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine with a secondary function as a testbed for new marine diesel engines later installed in German panzerschiffs.

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Glossary of German military terms

This is a list of words, terms, concepts, and slogans that have been or are used by the German military.

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Hans Jenisch

Hans Jenisch (19 October 1913 – 29 April 1982) was a Kapitänleutnant in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II and a Kapitän zur See in West Germany's Bundesmarine.

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Hans Langsdorff

Hans Wilhelm Langsdorff (20 March 1894 – 20 December 1939) was a German naval officer, most famous for his command of the Panzerschiff (pocket battleship) ''Admiral Graf Spee'' during the Battle of the River Plate.

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HMNZS Achilles (70)

HMNZS Achilles was a light cruiser which served with the Royal New Zealand Navy in the Second World War, the second of five in the class.

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HMS Achates (H12)

HMS Achates was an destroyer of the British Royal Navy launched on 4 October 1929 and commissioned on 27 March 1930.

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HMS Eagle (1918)

HMS Eagle was an early aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy.

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HMS Exeter (68)

HMS Exeter was the second and last heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy during the late 1920s.

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HMS Hardy (1936)

HMS Hardy was the flotilla leader for the H-class destroyers, built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s.

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HMS Hasty (H24)

HMS Hasty was an H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the mid-1930s.

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HMS Hereward (H93)

HMS Hereward, named after Hereward the Wake, was an H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s.

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HMS Hermes (95)

HMS Hermes was a British aircraft carrier built for the Royal Navy and was the world's first ship to be designed as an aircraft carrier, although the Imperial Japanese Navy's was the first to be launched and commissioned.

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HMS Hostile (H55)

HMS Hostile (H55) was an H-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the 1930s.

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HMS Jervis Bay

HMS Jervis Bay was a British liner later converted into an armed merchant cruiser, pennant F40.

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HMS Kent (54)

HMS Kent, pennant number 54, was a heavy cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the late 1920s.

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HMS Middleton (L74)

HMS Middleton was a Type II Hunt class destroyer of the Royal Navy and served in the Second World War.

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HMS Neptune (20)

HMS Neptune was a light cruiser which served with the Royal Navy during World War II.

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HMS Norfolk (78)

HMS Norfolk was a County-class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy; along with her sister ship, she was part of a planned four-ship subclass.

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HMS Ramillies (07)

HMS Ramillies (pennant number: 07) was one of five s built for the Royal Navy during World War I. She was completed after the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and saw no combat during the war.

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HMS Revenge (06)

HMS Revenge (pennant number: 06) was the lead ship of the s built for the Royal Navy during World War I. Although the class is often referred to as the Royal Sovereign class, official documents of 1914–1918 refer to it as the Revenge class.

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HMS Spearfish (69S)

HMS Spearfish was a Royal Navy S-class submarine which was launched 21 April 1936 and fought in World War II.

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HNoMS Kjell

HNoMS Kjell was the final ship of twenty-seven 2nd class torpedo boats built for the Royal Norwegian Navy, launched at the Royal Norwegian Navy's shipyard in Horten on 12 March 1912 with build number 106.

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HNoMS Olav Tryggvason

The minelayer HNoMS Olav Tryggvason was built by the naval shipyard at Horten in the early 1930s and had build number 119.

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Indian Ocean in World War II

The Indian Ocean had long been an important maritime trade route between European nations and their colonial territories in East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, British India, Indochina, the East Indies (Indonesia), and Australia.

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Interwar naval service of Erich Raeder

Erich Johann Albert Raeder (24 April 1876 – 6 November 1960) was a naval leader in Germany before and during World War II.

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Jürgen Wattenberg

Jürgen Wattenberg (28 December 1900 – 27 September 1995) was a German naval officer and U-boat commander during the Second World War.

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Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine (literally "War Navy") was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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Kronshtadt-class battlecruiser

The Kronshtadt-class battlecruisers, with the Soviet designation as Project 69 heavy cruisers, ("Тяжёлые крейсера проекта 69"), were ordered for the Soviet Navy in the late 1930s.

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Kurt von Schleicher

Kurt Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann von Schleicher (7 April 1882 – 30 June 1934) was a German general and the last Chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

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Lancelot Holland

Vice Admiral Lancelot Ernest Holland, CB (13 September 1887 – 24 May 1941) commanded the British force in the Battle of the Denmark Strait in May 1941 against the German battleship ''Bismarck''.

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List of battlecruisers of Russia

After the end of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, the Russian Naval General Staff decided that it needed a squadron of fast "armored cruisers" (Броненосный крейсер; bronenosnyy kreyser)The Borodino-class ships were formally known as armored cruisers until they were redesignated as battlecruisers (линейный крейсер; lineinyi kreiser) by an order of 29 July 1915.

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List of cruisers of World War II

The heavy cruiser was designed for long range, high speed, and heavy calibre naval guns.

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List of ships of World War II

This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type.

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List of ships of World War II (A)

The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type.

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List of ships of World War II (D)

The List of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type.

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List of types of naval vessels

This is a list of types of watercraft which have seen naval use.

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Ludwig Straniak

Ludwig Straniak (1879-1951), was a German mystic, Germanic revivalist and most notably a pendulum dowser.

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Mid-Ocean Meeting Point

The Mid-Ocean Meeting Point (MOMP) was the name of a point south of Iceland where escort groups would meet World War II merchant ship convoys en route between Newfoundland and the British Isles.

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Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II

The United Kingdom, along with most of its Dominions and Crown colonies declared war on Nazi Germany in September 1939, after the German invasion of Poland.

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Military simulation

Military simulations, also known informally as war games, are simulations in which theories of warfare can be tested and refined without the need for actual hostilities.

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Monsun Gruppe

The Gruppe Monsun or Monsoon Group was a force of German U-boats (submarines) that operated in the Pacific and Indian Oceans during World War II.

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Montevideo

Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay.

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MS Morska Wola

The MS Morska Wola, (previously Consul Horn, Hindhead and Rio Negro), was a Polish freighter during the Second World War.

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No. 90 Squadron RAF

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Non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War

During the Spanish Civil War, several countries followed a principle of non-intervention, to avoid any potential escalation and possible expansion of the war to other nations, which would result in the signing of the Non-Intervention Agreement in August 1936 and the setting up of the Non-Intervention Committee, which first met in September.

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November 5

No description.

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Opposing forces in the Polish September Campaign

Germany and Poland were the main opposing forces in the Polish September Campaign.

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Osbert Lancaster

Sir Osbert Lancaster, CBE (4 August 1908 – 27 July 1986) was an English cartoonist, architectural historian, stage designer and author.

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Panzer

The word Panzer is a German word that means "armour" or specifically, "tank".

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Phoney War

The Phoney War (Drôle de guerre; Sitzkrieg) was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district.

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Plan Z

Plan Z was the name given to the planned re-equipment and expansion of the Kriegsmarine (German navy) ordered by Adolf Hitler in early 1939.

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Pocket cruiser

A pocket cruiser, microcruiser, trailer sailer or pocket yacht is a small lightweight sailboat with a cabin, designed for recreational cruising.

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Río de la Plata

The Río de la Plata ("river of silver") — rendered River Plate in British English and the Commonwealth and La Plata River (occasionally Plata River) in other English-speaking countries — is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay and the Paraná rivers.

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Reichsmarine

The Reichsmarine (Navy of the Realm) was the name of the German Navy during the Weimar Republic and first two years of Nazi Germany.

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Royal New Zealand Navy

The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN; Maori: Te Taua Moana o Aotearoa, "Warriors of the Sea of New Zealand") is the maritime arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. The fleet currently consists of ten ships and eight naval helicopters.

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Ruse de guerre

The French ruse de guerre, sometimes literally translated as ruse of war, is a non-uniform term; generally what is understood by "ruse of war" can be separated into two groups: the first classifies the phrase purely as an act of military deception against one's opponent; the second emphasizes acts against one's opponent by creative, clever, unorthodox means, sometimes involving force multipliers or superior knowledge.

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Schulschiff Deutschland

Schulschiff Deutschland ("School Ship Germany") is a German full-rigged sail training ship, maintained as a historical monument and museum ship.

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Scuttling

Scuttling is the deliberate sinking of a ship by allowing water to flow into the hull.

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SS Beaverford

SS Beaverford was a cargo liner operated by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company.

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Tallboy (bomb)

Tallboy, or Bomb, Medium Capacity, 12,000 lb, was an earthquake bomb developed by the British aeronautical engineer Barnes Wallis and used by the RAF during the Second World War.

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Technology during World War II

Technology played a significant role in World War II.

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The Battle of the River Plate (film)

The Battle of the River Plate (a.k.a. Pursuit of the Graf Spee in the United States) is a 1956 British war film in Technicolor and VistaVision by the writer-director-producer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

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The Navy Comes Through

The Navy Comes Through is a 1942 American World War II film directed by A. Edward Sutherland.

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The Sea Chase

The Sea Chase is a 1955 World War II drama film starring John Wayne and Lana Turner, and featuring David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, and Tab Hunter.

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Tommy Trinder

Thomas Edward Trinder CBE (24 March 1909 – 10 July 1989), known as Tommy Trinder, was an English stage, screen and radio comedian of the pre- and post-war years whose catchphrase was 'You lucky people'.

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Top Ten (Military Channel)

Top Ten is an American Heroes Channel (formerly known as the Military Channel) program which rates and ranks ten famous weapons or systems across military history since the 20th century.

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Uruguay during World War II

Uruguay stayed neutral during most of World War II, despite internal disputes and pressure to join the Allies.

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USS Helena (CL-50)

USS Helena (CL-50) was a light cruiser of the United States Navy.

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USS McCalla (DD-253)

The first USS McCalla (DD-253) was a in the United States Navy.

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USS Twiggs (DD-127)

The first USS Twiggs (DD–127) was a in the United States Navy during World War I. She was named for Major Levi Twiggs.

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Walter Warzecha

Walter Wilhelm Julius Warzecha (23 May 1891 – 3 August 1956) was a German naval commander and high-ranking officer of the Kriegsmarine.

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Warship

A warship is a naval ship that is built and primarily intended for naval warfare.

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Werner Henke

Werner Henke (13 May 1909 – 15 June 1944) was the commander of in the Battle of the Atlantic of World War II.

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Wilhelmshaven

Wilhelmshaven (meaning William's Harbour) is a coastal town in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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1937 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1937.

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1939 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1939.

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1945 in aviation

This is a list of aviation-related events from 1945.

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28 cm SK C/28 naval gun

The German 28 cm C/28SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design) was a 283 mm 52-caliber built-up gun designed in 1928 and used on the pocket battleships.

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3.7 cm SK C/30

The 3.7 cm SK C/30SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design) was the German Kriegsmarine's primary anti-aircraft gun during the Second World War.

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8.8 cm SK L/45 naval gun

The 8.8 cm SK L/45 (SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon) L - Länge (with a 45-caliber barrel)) was a German naval gun that was used in World War I and World War II on a variety of mounts.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland-class_cruiser

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