Marie Claude says, “there wasn’t a significant german Navy, this was one of the requests made in Versailles treaty, that Germany couldn’t rebuilt her fleet.”
That is false. The Treaty of Versailles merely stated that no signing nation could produce a warship with a displacement exceeding 10,000 tons.
The Germans bent that rule and also flat out ignored it as can be seen by the specs on the Graf Spee, the Bismarck and the Deutschland.
In addition to the U Boats that could have been used for a blockade, they had:
The heavy cruiser Schleswig-Holstein
The battleship KMS Deutschland
The battleship KMS Bismarck
The heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer
The battleship Graf Spee
The German navy was well equipped to pommel England from the sea. They relied on the Luftwaffe and Goering’s hubris.
Just the facts, Ma’am.
