Karl-Friedrich Merten commanded the U-boat U-68 in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Merten was credited with the sinki
auxiliary cruiser Atlantis
The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire and the inter-war Reichsmarine of the Weimar Republic. The Kriegsmarine was
Erich Raeder, commander of the Kriegsmarine until 1943
The crew of a minesweeper in France, 1941
The battleship Tirpitz in Norway, 1944