Key Point: The Tirpitz may have been an inglorious kind of success for having forced the Allies to divert such disproportionate resources to contain and eventually destroy her. At 3 AM on the morning ...

The Tirpitz was named for Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the Kaiserliche Marine, or Imperial Navy. Laid down at the Kriegsmarinewerft in Wilhelmshaven, the Tirpitz was constructed ...

Had Neptune risen from the vasty deep last week and climbed the tribune of the German Reichstag wearing a double nannygoat beard, the sensation could scarcely have exceeded that caused by the “maiden ...

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 ...

In 1943, the German battleship Tirpitz loomed as a constant threat to Allied convoys in the Arctic. Too well-defended for a conventional assault, the Royal Navy turned to a daring plan—sending X-class ...

The Nazis regularly used chemical fog to hide its Tirpitz battleship in the Norwegian fjords during World War II. Imperial War Museum/Wikimedia Commons Germany's World War II battleship the Tirpitz, ...

Shortly after 1:00 a.m. on March 28, 1942, a destroyer flying the German flag and 18 smaller boats entered the Loire River estuary and headed for the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire on France's ...

Once launched, the Tirpitz became the target of relentless Allied attempts to neutralize it before it could threaten convoys in the North Atlantic. From daring sabotage missions using human torpedoes ...

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The Tirpitz was the Third Reichs ultimate weapon Sister ship to the Bismarck she was the most successful German battleship of WWII She alone had the power to destroy an entire convoy and from 193944 ...

Obsessed with “game-changing” Wunderwaffen (“wonder weapons”) Adolf Hitler squandered vast resources on the development and construction of monster war machines that proved to have little operational ...