Summary: The Treaty of Versailles imposed severe restrictions on the German navy, leading to the innovative design of pocket battleships to circumvent these limitations. These ships, though effective ...

Key Points and Summary - In a rare World War II naval upset, two German battleships, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, ambushed and sank the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious in 1940. -The disaster ...

The worst drought in Europe in decades hasn't only scorched farmland and hampered river traffic, it also has exposed a part of almost forgotten World War II history: The hulks of dozens of World War ...

An archive of 22 Royal Nay telegram messages describing the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck is up for auction in the U.K. The Bismarck has been described as the largest and most powerful ...

The wreckage of a German warship that was struck by a British torpedo in 1940 has been discovered off the coast or Norway. Norwegian power grid operator Statnett said the cruiser Karlsruhe was ...

As Europe continues to experience a record heat wave that one top scientist said could signal its worst drought in 500 years, receding water levels along the continent's massive Danube River have ...

Key Point: Bismarck and Tirpitz simply did not compare favorably with any other navy’s fast battleships. Prior to World War One, Germany held extensive territories in the Pacific. A German Empire ...

PRAHOVO, Serbia, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Europe's worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden ...

Nazi Germany's two Bismarck-class battleships were the most imposing it built during World War II. The threat they posed to convoys and warships made them a special target for the Allies. British ...

The documentary release The War File: Great German Battleships of World War II culls from material including vintage archival footage, interviews with former Nazi officers, and file photographs to ...