The thrilling story of the last German naval raid of the war, a sudden attack on the Normandy port of[…]
Category: Kriegsmarine
The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire and the inter-war Reichsmarine of the Weimar Republic.
The Life and Death of the Scharnhorst
Life and Death of the ‘Scharnhorst’ The Life and Death of the ‘Scharnhorst’ with Ludovic Kennedy Forty-one years ago, on[…]
The Battle of the North Cape – Ice and Fire at Sea
Battle of the North Cape In which we examine the last stand of the Scharnhorst and the various changes in[…]
Operation Rheinübung – First and Last Voyage of the Bismarck
Last Voyage of the Bismarck 78 years ago the pride of the Kriegsmarine slipped beneath the waves. Today, we tell[…]
D-Day – The German Naval Counterattack
The German Naval Counterattack The story of the German Navy’s attempts to interfere with D-Day from gunboats to E-Boats, which[…]
Last Voyage of the U-853
German U-Boat Wreck off Coast of Rhode Island RI Filmmaker Explores German U-Boat Wreck off Coast of Rhode Island in[…]
The Hunt for Tirpitz, 42-44 – Time-Lapse
Hunt for Tirpitz Between 1942 and 1944, the Royal Navy and the RAF duel with the mighty German Battleship Tirpitz[…]
The Buried Battleship!
German Pocket Battleship Discover the truly extraordinary story of the forgotten German pocket battleship that today lies buried under a[…]
Channel Dash; Scharnhorst and Gneisenau Run the British Blockade – Time-Lapse
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau Run the British Blockade Operation Cerberus – the Battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau attempt to make a surprise[…]
Why Aircraft Patrols Were a Source of Fear for Nazi U-Boats
Air Patrols While U-boats were able to evade Allied warships, the odds were much lower with Air Patrols. Aircraft could[…]