Impressive battleships continued to have a place in the naval imagination into the 1930s and 1940s, as the capital ships of their day. All the major nations were still building them. It simply appeared necessary to have ships that were at least as powerful as those of your potential foes.
There were those within the Kriegsmarine who had argued that Germa…
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