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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War.

Episode 82, Germany prepares for war part five, more boats.

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including this podcast. Last episode, we've discussed the course of the German Navy during the

1920s and early 1930s, culminating with the design of the Scharnhorst-class battle ships and the

hipper-class heavy cruisers.

These two ships represent a good place to start this episode as well, because they were

an important turning point for the German Navy.

I feel like the temptation with the ship classes during the 1930s is to immediately start diving into

numbers. Gun caliber, speed, armor thickness, armor placement, armor angles, anti-aircraft guns,

etc., etc. With the Scharnhorst and Hipper classes, we could dive into those numbers,

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