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  2. Category:World War II cruisers of Germany - Wikipedia

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    German cruiser Admiral Hipper; German cruiser Admiral Scheer; SMS Arcona (1902) German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis; B. ... Category: World War II cruisers of Germany.

  3. List of heavy cruisers of Germany - Wikipedia

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    Most of the heavy cruisers were used as commerce raiders during World War II, of which Admiral Scheer was the most successful; Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled after the Battle of the River Plate. Blücher was sunk by Norwegian coastal batteries during Operation Weserübung , the German invasion of Denmark and Norway, just four days after the ...

  4. List of cruisers of Germany - Wikipedia

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    These six cruisers all saw combat during World War II; two, Königsberg and Karlsruhe, were sunk during the invasion of Norway in April 1940. [56] Emden and Köln were destroyed by Allied bombers in the closing months of the war, and Leipzig was discarded after being badly damaged in a collision with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen .

  5. List of cruisers of World War II - Wikipedia

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    Heavy cruisers continued in use until after World War II. The German Deutschland class was a series of three Panzerschiffe ("armored ships"), a form of heavily armed cruiser, built by the German Reichsmarine in nominal accordance with restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles.

  6. German cruiser Deutschland - Wikipedia

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    Deutschland was the lead ship of her class of heavy cruisers (often termed pocket battleships) which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II.Ordered by the Weimar government for the Reichsmarine, she was laid down at the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel in February 1929 and completed by April 1933.

  7. List of battlecruisers of Germany - Wikipedia

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    The eventual successor to the Kaiserliche Marine, the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany, considered building three O-class battlecruisers before World War II as part of the Plan Z buildup of the navy. The outbreak of war in 1939 caused the plans to be shelved, and none of these ships were built. [a]

  8. German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis - Wikipedia

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    The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis (HSK 2), known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 16 and to the Royal Navy as Raider-C, was a converted German Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser), or merchant or commerce raider of the Kriegsmarine, which, in World War II, travelled more than 161,000 km (100,000 mi) in 602 days, and sank or captured 22 ships with a combined tonnage of 144,384.

  9. Admiral Hipper-class cruiser - Wikipedia

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    The German navy, renamed the Kriegsmarine on 21 May 1935, was now free to pursue rearmament. Germany concluded the Anglo-German Naval Agreement with Great Britain, which set German naval strength at 35% of the size of the Royal Navy. [6] This permitted Germany to build 50,000 long tons (51,000 t) of heavy cruisers, enough for five 10,000-ton ...