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The swordfish torpedo that left Bismarck unable to steer

The German battleship Bismarck set out on Operation Rheinübung in May 1941, aiming to reach the Atlantic and target Allied ...
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The hunt for Germany's largest warship proved that U-boats were the Nazis' best weapon

On the night of May 18, 1941, the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen steamed out of its base at Gotenhafen (now Gdynia, Poland), followed five hours later by the Kriegsmarine's crown jewel, the ...
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Here’s Who Would Win Between Nazi Germany’s Bismarck and the Navy’s Last Battleship

The larger context of the battle—the U.S. Navy being forced to take on the German Navy—would have had serious repercussions for the Pacific theater. Germany was, after all, considered the primary ...
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Bismarck is Germany's first Chancellor

Otto von Bismarck at his desk in 1886. Source: Wikimedia Commons After forging German nationhood through the Franco-Prussian war in 1871, Otto von Bismarck took office on March 21 as the first German ...
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Bismarck is Germany's first Chancellor

After forging German nationhood through the Franco-Prussian war in 1871, Otto von Bismarck took office on March 21 as the first German Chancellor - a post he would hold on to for nearly 20 years.