Kriegsmarine

The Kriegsmarine was the name of the German Navy during the Nazi regime (1935–1945). It superseded the Reichsmarine and the Kaiserliche Marine of World War I. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches of the Wehrmacht, the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany.

The Kriegsmarine's most famous ships were the U-boat wolf packs, constructed after Plan Z was abandoned on the eve of World War II.

Kriegsmarine in Days of Infamy
The Kriegsmarine was busy fighting in the Atlantic when Japan invaded Hawaii in 1941. News of their victories where printed in the Japanese run newspapers and footage shown in movie reels.

After the first attempt to retake the islands failed, the US Navy adopted the sub tactics of the Kriegsmarine and applied them to the Japanese with devastating results.

Kriegsmarine in Worldwar
The Kriegsmarine was busy fighting the bulk of the Royal Navy for control of the Atlantic when the Race invaded in mid 1942.

Although the Kriegsmarine played no significant role, their major strike against the Race came in 1944 when an Elektroboot sailed from Crete to Alexandria completely underwater, and detonated Germany's third explosive-metal bomb.

During the Race-German War in 1964, the Kriegsmarine's nuclear Submarines launched nuclear attacks against Race colonies.

Kriegsmarine in The War That Came Early
When war broke out in 1938, the Kriegsmarine could do very little except sinking frigate ships in the North Atlantic and fighting Russian ships in the Baltic.