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He specialised in the Soviet Navy and over the years he became one of the most renowned experts on Russian naval forces. He drew several hundred silhouette drawings for the annual Weyers Flottentaschenbuch, and from 1958 he wrote for Soldat und Technik, the armed forces journal, and published several hundred articles on naval subjects. In 1947 he joined the civil service where he worked until his retirement in 1980.įrom early postwar days he contributed to naval publications where he was able to use his drawing skills.

Hidden under the load on a coal train, he returned to his devastated homeland. He was captured a few days before the war ended but managed to escape from the POW camp in France in autumn 1945. After the Kriegsmarine was destroyed, in the last months of the war Breyer found his way to the marine infantry fighting the British in the West. After two years of education his first active posting was to a destroyer, and then on other small warships.ĭuring his school years Germany was at war with the Allies both in the West and in the East. In 1941, while still of school age, he had a chance to enter the naval NCO school, as the Kriegsmarine followed the Wehrmacht and opened their own NCO schools for juniors. Siegfried Breyer was born in 1926 and was associated with the Kriegsmarine from the age of 12.

Reconstruction of the Reichsmarine: The First Battleship ConceptsĪUGUST WILHELM ANTON NEIDHARDT VON GNEISENAUĪppendix: The Aircraft Carrier Graf Zeppelin Printed and bound in China by 1010 Printing International Limited Contentsīattleships of the Reichsmarine and the Kriegsmarine The right of Siegfried Breyer and Mirosław Skwiot to be identified as theĪuthors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, System, without prior permission in writing of both the copyright owner Including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval Transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, No part of this publication may be reproduced or This edition first published in Great Britain in 2012 byĮmail Library Cataloguing in Publication DataĪ CIP data record for this book is available from the British LibraryĪll rights reserved.

Text translated from Polish by Jarosław Głodek © Seaforth Publishing 2012 This picture was probably taken in September 1938 and shows the detail of Gneisenau at the A10 mooring buoy in the Heikendorf roadstead off Kiel. We will certainly never see their like again.” -Journal of the Australian Naval Institute “Highly recommended for those who wish to admire seven of the most magnificent warships built anywhere in the twentieth century.

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For sake of completeness, there are even sections reproducing the various design studies that led to each class, while an appendix covers the uncompleted Graf Zeppelin, Germany’s only attempt to build an aircraft carrier, the vessel which clearly displaced the battleship as the capital ship of the world’s navies during the war.Įssays on technical backgrounds and design origins by the well-known expert Siegfried Breyer and explanatory captions by Miroslaw Skwiot draw out the full significance of this magnificent collection of photos. This book is a careful selection of the best of these, but on a grand scale, with around one hundred images devoted to each ship, allowing in-depth coverage of its whole career, from launching and fitting out to whatever fate the war had waiting for it. These include many close-ups and onboard shots of great value to modelmakers, as well as rare action photos taken during wartime operations. What has come to light, however, is a growing number of photographs, many from private albums and some that lay forgotten in obscure archives. The Kriegsmarine’s capital ships-Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, Graf Spee, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Bismarck, and Tirpitz-continue to generate intense interest among warship enthusiasts, despite the fact that no new source of information has been unearthed in decades. covers the major units starting with the Deutschland Class, through the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, to the Bismarck and Tirpitz.” -WW2 Cruisers

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