SMS Schlesien
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SMS Schlesien was one of five Deutschland-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the German Kaiserliche Marine between 1904 and 1906. Named after the German province of Silesia, Schlesien was lai
Schlesien before World War I
Schlesien in the Panama Canal in 1937
Schlesien fires at Hel Fortified Area.
Schlesien (background) and Schleswig-Holstein (right side-foreground) in Westerplatte following the occupation of the port
Reichsmarine
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The Reichsmarine was the name of the German Navy during the Weimar Republic and first two years of Nazi Germany. It was the naval branch of the Reichswehr, existing from 1919 to 1935. In 1935, it was
SMS Schlesien
…Schlesien, to defend the German coast. Initially kept in reserve, she was modernized in the mid-1920s and saw extensive service with the reorganized Reichsmarine. Schlesien saw limited combat during World War II, briefly bombarding Polish forces during the invasion of Poland in September 1939. She escorted…
The Mürwik Naval School in 1929
Ships of the Reichsmarine on maneuvers in 1929 with a Königsberg-class cruiser on the right
Admiraal Adolf von Trotha
Paul Behncke