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Hello everyone and welcome to another set of older member episodes that are being released here on the main episode feed.

This series of episodes covers the Interwar Royal Navy, which seemed appropriate as the podcast is about to start its episodes on the Battle of Britain.

In fact, that's what I'm working on right now, which is why you're hearing this.

There will be six episodes in total released

over the next six weeks as I get this next series on the Battle of Britain kind of sorted out,

prepared, and ready for release. Thank you for your patience, and here's the episode.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to History of the Second World War,

Members Episode 14, The Royal Navy Part 4, building better battleships.

In the years before the Second World War, the Royal Navy would spend a staggering amount of money on new ships. They did this because their goal was to match the fleets that both the Germans and Japanese

were in the process of building. For the Germans, that meant the three Deutsche

-Len-Class Pocket Battleships, the two Scharnhorst-class battleships, and the Bismarck and Turpitz.

These ships were well known due to the terms of the Anglo-German Naval Treaty, which

required the Germans to share their building programs. Now, the Germans were not entirely

truthful about the size of the ships or the exact details, but the existence of the ships

was well known. The plans for the Japanese were far more ambiguous, but the British knew that

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