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RE: Ready for World War II
Posted by: Joe Brennan ()
Date: December 09, 2000 07:30AM

<HTML>HI Ben & Others

For the German Navy (the Kriegsmarine), events moved too quickly.
The Commander-In-Chief, at the time Grand Adm Raeder, had been
assured by Hitler personally that war against Britain would not be
launched before 1944. Adm Raeder took Hitler\'s word on it, so he
planned for war for 1944..but only too slowly for that matter.!
There were commanders in the German Navy begging for an
immaediate, huge build-up of the country\'s U-Boat force.
However, before hostilities broke out five years early, the German
naval build-up had barely begun.
By Sept 1939, Germany had only 45-50 operational U-boats, and
only 17 were ocean-going U-boats at the time.

Cheers, Joe Brennan
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Ready for World War II Ben 12/08/2000 02:18AM
RE: Ready for World War II Craig McLean 12/08/2000 03:15PM
RE: Ready for World War II Rich Mickle 12/08/2000 07:13PM
RE: Ready for World War II Joe Brennan 12/09/2000 07:30AM


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