Oberkommando der Marine
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The Oberkommando der Marine was the high command and the highest administrative and command authority of the Kriegsmarine. It was officially formed from the Marineleitung of the Reichswehr on 11 January 1936. In 1937 it was combined with the newly formed Seekriegsleitung (SKL). There were two major re-organisations, in November 1939 and May 1944.
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1980 128 63, Erich Raeder
Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 146 1976 127 06A, Karl Dönitz (cropped)(2)
Image: Walter Warzecha on the deck of a training ship (cropped)
Kriegsmarine
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The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war Reichsmarine (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches, along with the Heer and the Luftwaffe, of the Wehrmacht, the German armed forces from 1935 to 1945.
Erich Raeder, commander of the Kriegsmarine until 1943
The crew of a minesweeper in France, 1941
The battleship Tirpitz in Norway, 1944
Anti-Jewish measures ordered by the German naval commander in Liepāja, 5 July 1941