Defeated and depleted of military technology after World War I, Germany adopted the highly controversial “Plan Z” in 1939. Launched shortly before the start of World War II, the project could have made Germany’s naval power equal to that of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy, and it called for the construction of 10 battleships, 3 battlecruisers, 4 carriers, 15 Panzerschiffe, 5 heavy and 13 light cruisers, 22 scouts, 68 destroyers, and 90 U-boats for a total of 230 vessels with over 200,000 sailors. Facing a formidable threat from such a surface fleet available may have caused Britain to think twice about their island nation’s vulnerability and may have put Germany on the front-foot for any Sea Lion-like amphibious invasion across the English Channel…
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Its tirpitz. Not tripitz.. pronounced like Terpits
If Germany would have had aircraft carriers – bringing the Luftwaffe to East Coast US shipyards… there would have been a far different outcome in the Atlantic. Building Aircraft Carriers instead of the cruisers, or converting cruisers into carriers like the Japanese Navy did, would have allowed the Luftwaffe to coordinate air attacks on convoys along with the U-Boat attacks.
My father is a historian and a retired Navy Captain who studied WWII in every detail… no historian could say definitively that carriers in the Kriegsmarine/Luftwaffe would not have made changes to the war that are not calculable.
Plan Z – yet another grand war-winning plan by Nazi Germany. Its only flaw being that Nazi Germany would have to win the war first in order to implement it.
Interesting documentary. How come the Germans never built an aircraft carrier?
Germany had not enough steel etc to make this happen
Plus after one disaster – Hitler scrapped heavy ships
thank god hitter was in charge, If germ would of concentrated on subs they might of won the European war
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What preposterous folly by uncle Adolf here, I mean why on earth launch a shipbuilding program only for the results of it seeing out the War anchored?!
Just think what might have been if Germany had waited a couple of more years before forcing an invasion of Poland.
Hitler who also happened to be chancellor – “I am the senate”
defeated and depleted? More like uk didnt want a naval rival and forced germany to disarm
Bismarck and Moltke carefully and brilliantly built the German Empire.
Tirpitz, Ludedorff and Wilhelm II stupidly destroyed it.
You talk way too fast
A more logical way to do the Z-plan is build a carrier and then build your fleet to support your carrier
Thanks! Enjoyable and informative.
Good stuff! The Allies are fortunate that those resources weren't put into building subs from the beginning!
Unfortunately, Germany didn't have the capacity or resources to make all of the ships in their plan.
They literally went to war as a means to gain resources for their war machine which was beginning to falter in 1939.
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5:07 Tripitz?
Plan Z can’t possibly fail!!!
Somehow, l cannot imagine the British, not responding, as pre WW1 naval race.
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The fact that the planned H-44 was supposed to be 80 Meters longer and two times heavier than the Yamato amazes me. Supplying that thing would've depleted the dwindling Reich supplies
Excellent programme and very accurate in detail. Thanks
Looking back you can see how Germany was laying the ground work for ww2 and took advantage of the allies appeasement. Kinda like current day China, they working to genocide Uyghurs Muslims, trying to take land from India, claiming islands that are not theirs, talk about reuniting Taiwan, a partnership with Russian on military traning and building.
Don't get me wrong one of the best channels on YouTube hands down, this is the first time I have any sort of negative comment, but this one has a little too many dates and numbers to keep up with. I'm drawn to this channel daily, but this one is just a little overwhelming dialogue wise
How was this “secret” when all nations knew what they were doing. Germany just kept pushing the line strategically more and more and no one did anything. They just sat there and watched an angered nation rebuild everything militaristic. What a mistake
As a non english speaker this channel is useless… I can't understand meth languaje.
Plan Z and Force Z are both overrated
Who down-votes this? Nazi sympathizers? I guess. Keep it up Dark team.
Hitler had to learn the hard way that battleships are a waste of time. Fortunately for the free world, he had to learn a of things the hard way.
Germany should have gone to submarines from the start 1935-7. They could never catch up with England even if they envisioned no war till 46 . Hitler starting a war with Poland , just torpedoed the German Navy to be impotant and just sacrificing the crews
sorry. you talk to fast
When you start and lose one war, then start buffing up again…everyone knows what you're doing. Sad thing is, them and Japan tossed the building stipulations and still lost. JUST STAY DOWN AND BE CIVIL! Ask America. Want to try to get involved everywhere on everyone else's turf? Prepare to get pushed back out, especially if you keep the gloves on. There is no morality in war, if it becomes a necessity, take off the gloves and throw hands. Only reason Deutschland and the axis powers lost is because they pissed off the commie pinkos.
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This plan could only work if Germany won the first war then they would have had the economy and resources to build that many ships I know that goes into alt history but I believe the Kaiser and Hitler had similar views on the navy meaning the Kaiser would have wanted a navy like that of Plan Z.
Germany, typical of would’ve, could’ve , should’ve. Lost 2 B2B WWs.