Articles related to "German Navy"

As she slid down the slipway on February 10, 1906, few realised the role the British battleship Dreadnought was to play in the shaping of the world for the next century.

When Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime had begun the process of German rearmament they had been almost as keen to build U-boats again as military aircraft, and tanks.

From the laying of her keel, to her mysterious sinking near the end of the First World War, U-Boat 65 was believed to be cursed ship by all those who sailed in her.

The pride of the Kriegsmarine, the battleship Bismarck's only voyage saw great victory in the Battle of the Denmark Strait - and shattering defeat in the Bay of Biscay.

Wilhelm II was the third and final Kaiser of Germany, losing his throne as a consequence of defeat in World War One

The remaining Nazis who didn't kill themselves at the end of World War II finally got their comeuppance. The trial took place in Nuremberg's Palace of Justice.

Interned at the close of World War One in Scotland the German fleet chose to scuttle itself at anchor rather than surrender

Arthur Zimmerman became famous during the First World War for sending the Zimmerman telegram to the Mexican authorities.

Edward VII succeeded his mother Victoria in January 1901. He was already nearing his sixties by that stage.

The Battle of Britain was argued to have been highly significant by the then British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

When Hitler launched his invasion of Norway in 1940 only the warships of the Royal Navy stood any chance of stopping him.

Entangling alliances in 1914 ensured that any provocation would set into motion the intricate military mobilization schedules dragging the Great Powers into World War.

German reaction to the Treaty of Versailles was generally an adverse one. The Germans were in many respects shocked by their defeat in the First World War.

Harry fitted no convention - whether as an intrepid naval commander or treading the boards with Laurence Olivier, life was simply a test. That he passed with honours!

Admiral Karl Donitz's mauraders terrorized the seas with u-boats during World War II. They would sink thousands of war ships, merchant vessels and even passenger ships.

A little-known factor of the successful sneak attack on Pearl Habor was that German spies supplied intelligence to the Japanese for the six years before Devember 7, 1941.

Used by the United States and Great Britian the 14 inch naval gun was in history from the Dardanelles to Guam in the 20th Century.

In 1915, Turpitz, a pig rescued from the German cruiser Dresden, became the mascot of HMS Glasgow and raised nearly £2,000 for the British War Effort.

Countless battles and bombing raids occurred during W.W.2. The16th October 2009 is the 70th anniversary of the 1st aerial attack on British territory by the Luftwaffe.

This was the period during which the military, strategic, and territorial balance in Europe was profoundly altered by German victories.

With a last subtle gasp the flags of Austria's last fleet has been furled

The three original super guns with which the Imperial German army bombarded Paris from the woods of Crepy from March 1918 to the end of World War I.

Until the late 19th Century, Germany was a mass of small independent states - until, that is, they were united under the leadership of ambitious, warlike Prussia.

World War II was horrific in England, with even minors serving in the military long and well. Young Bugle Boys, barely out of grade school, were no exception.

The Armies of Britain, France, the US, Greece, Japan, Serbia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Italy, and Canada intervened in the Russian Civil War each for their own motive.