In 1945, the Kriegsmarine dispatched its last operational ships in the Mediterranean on a desperate mining mission. The three ...

Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider fleet. Hitler’s navy, the German Kriegsmarine, was designed to do one thing: ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The German battleships closed in at more than at thirty knots. The British destroyers attempted to lay smoke to cover the carrier’s withdrawal, but it was too late.

Divers off the coast of Indonesia have discovered the wreck of a WW2 Nazi U-boat - complete with the skeletons of its lost crew aboard. Initial researches show it to be U-168, a hunter-killer of the ...

Divers off the coast of Indonesia have discovered the wreck of a WW2 Nazi U-Boat - complete with the skeletons of its lost crew aboard. It is believed to be U-168, a hunter-killer of the German ...

To say the end of World War II was hectic would be an understatement. Europe and a large portion of the Pacific Islands were left in shambles as Allied forces scrambled to pick up the pieces and ...

But Hitler’s Germany did make progress towards building an aircraft carrier. This was the Graf Zeppelin—named for Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, best known for developing the eponymous airship. The ...