13 Facts About Kriegsmarine

Kriegsmarine saw as her main tasks the controlling of the Baltic Sea and winning a war against France in connection with the German army, because France was seen as the most likely enemy in the event of war.

Kriegsmarine participated in the Battle of Westerplatte and the Battle of the Danzig Bay during the invasion of Poland.

Kriegsmarine was scuttled after being rendered a burning wreck by two British battleships.

From late 1944 until the end of the war, the surviving surface fleet of the Kriegsmarine was heavily engaged in providing artillery support to the retreating German land forces along the Baltic coast and in ferrying civilian refugees to the western Baltic Sea parts of Germany in large rescue operations.

The Kriegsmarine evacuated two million civilians and troops in the evacuation of East Prussia and Danzig from January to May 1945.

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The Kriegsmarine provided important assistance in the evacuation of the fleeing German civilians of Pomerania and Stettin in March and April 1945.

Desperate measure of the Kriegsmarine to fight the superior strength of the Western Allies from 1944 was the formation of the Kleinkampfverbande.

Kriegsmarine was pressed into Kriegsmarine service for a brief time before being destroyed by British MTBs.

The Kriegsmarine employed hundreds of auxiliary Vorpostenboote during the war, mostly civilian ships that were drafted and fitted with military equipment, for use in coastal operations.

Kriegsmarine's authority was exercised through the Oberkommando der Marine, or OKM, with a Commander-in-Chief, a Chief of Naval General Staff and a Chief of Naval Operations.

Kriegsmarine was replaced by Karl Donitz on 30 January 1943 who held the command until he was appointed President of Germany upon Hitler's suicide in April 1945.

The Kriegsmarine used a form of encoding called Gradnetzmeldeverfahren to denote regions on a map.

Many different types of uniforms were worn by the Kriegsmarine; here is a list of the main ones:.