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Music Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War, episode 153, the early war at sea part three, the Kriegsmarine.

This week, a big thank you goes out to Rhett, Mark, Abir, Sam, Eric, and Daniel for choosing

to become members. You can find out more over at History of the Second World War.com

slash members. Throughout the first 150 episodes of this show, we've discussed in good detail

some of the impacts that the experiences

of the First World War had on the nations that would participate in the second.

Today we will start with another one of those impacts, and in this case it revolves around

the German Navy, generally referred to as the Kriegsmarine.

The efforts of the Kriegsmarine existed in the shadow of the

advance of the First World War at sea, and they would reject the strategy pursued by the

Imperial German Navy during that conflict. That strategy was one of maintaining a fleet

in being, driven by the desire to conserve fleet strength in the belief that simply by existing, they

were having an impact on the British war effort.

A rejection of this strategy pushed the German naval leaders in the interwar years

into a pursuit of a fleet that could allow them to be more proactive with their resources,

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