Built under the shadow of treaty limits and German rearmament, Gneisenau and Scharnhorst became two of the Kriegsmarine’s ...

The stories of Gneisenau and Scharnhorst ended in very different forms of destruction, from scuttling in Gotenhafen to the ...

The Treaty of Versailles drastically limited the size of the postwar Kriegsmarine, precluding Germany from owning any dreadnought battleships. The Germans could keep (and replace) pre-dreadnought ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Scharnhorst remained at Kiel for most of 1942. In early 1943, it proceeded to Norway where it operated as part of a “fleet in being” with Prinz Eugen, Tirpitz (the ...