Imperial German Navy

My homage to the once mighty Imperial German Navy which happened to be the second biggest one before the Great War, after the Royal Navy of course.

The first part of the music is "Preußens Gloria", a march composed by Johann Gottfried Piefke in 1871.
The second part is from the video game "Medal of Honor" composed by Michael Giacchino in 1999. The soundtrack was released by DreamWorks Interactive, all rights reserved.

Pictures:

1. 0:01 Imperial German Ensign
2. 0:05 First and second BB squadron
3. 0:10 BC SMS Mackensen and BB SMS Württemberg unfinished at Kiel
4. 0:15 BC SMS Von der Tann
5. 0:20 BC SMS Seydlitz after turrets
6. 0:25 SM Emperor William II.
7. 0:30 First BB squadron and a navy zeppelin
8. 0:35 BC SMS Derfflinger
9. 0:40 First BB squadron
10. 0:45 Sailors of BC SMS Moltke
11. 0:50 Grandadmiral von Tirpitz
12. 0:55 BC SMS Scharnhorst
13. 1:00 CL SMS Emden
14. 1:05 German East-Asia Squadron
15. 1:10 CL SMS Emden beached
16. 1:15 BC HMS Inflexible
17. 1:20 Vice Admiral von Spee
18. 1:25 German destroyers and BB SMS Schlesien
19. 1:30 CL SMS Mainz exploding
20. 1:35 SMS U-9
21. 1:40 Captain Lieutenant Otto Weddingen
22. 1:45 Navy Zeppelin Hansa over Hamburg
23. 1:50 BC SMS Blücher
24. 1:55 BC SMS Blücher rolls over
25. 2:00 Admiral von Hipper
26. 2:05 BB SMS Friedrich der Große
27. 2:10 BB SMS König after turrets
28. 2:15 BB SMS Großer Kurfürst
29. 2:20 BB SMS Bayern
30. 2:25 Wilhelm II., Admiral von Tirpitz and Admiral von Pohl
31. 2:30 Battle of Jutland, May 1916
32. 2:35 Third BB Squadron
33. 2:40 BC HMS Invincible exploding
34. 2:45 BB SMS Großer Kurfürst
35. 2:50 BC HMS Indefatigable sinking
36. 2:55 BC HMS Queen Mary exploding
37. 3:00 BC SMS Seydlitz limping home
38. 3:05 BC SMS Seydlitz badly damaged at port
39. 3:10 BC SMS Seydlitz torpedo damage
40. 3:15 Admiral Reinhard Scheer
41. 3:20 BC SMS Goeben and CL SMS Breslau
42. 3:25 Amphibious landing at Oesel
43. 3:30 BB SMS Bayern scuttled at Scapa Flow
44. 3:35 Imperial German Standart of the Commanding Admiral

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[EisenKreig]

I wish the fleet was never sunk. It would have been interesting if they had instead managed to have hid the fleet somewhere.

[DrGull1888]

@EisenKreig Yeah, perhaps in the Alps?

[kurtchancechace]

sure the nazis were smart and all, but why put a huge swatstika on the bow of the ship, its just making it easier for bombers t target thier warships, sure for soicialism, but cmon

[DrGull1888]

@kurtchancechace Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's always droll to see when people mistake the history of the German monarchy with the Third Reich.

[crashrj543]

I've always found it amusing how hitler's nazis called themselves "the Nazi socialist party". They were fascists, and hated the far left. Hitler is a disgrace to all of socialism.

[DrGull1888]

@crashrj543 Actually the term "Nazi"is the shortform of the words "National Socialism". The Nazis were certainly closer to Fascism than to Socialism but they still had several Socialistic features like a propagated anti capitalism combined with antisemitism (a typical Nazi feature), the abolition of class barriers and replacing the classes with the so called "Volksgemeinschaft" (ethnic community), national job-creation measures and the tendency towards command economy especially during the war.

[DrGull1888]

@MidwayCastaway Wrong time and wrong war.

[modelleg]

Excellent production thanks. Also photo references thanks.

[RoseShannaiv145]

hmz hab was geiles entdeckt haha

[TSR1989RN]

@girlgarde That Said: While France tried to hold on to their Empire after WWII (& failed [especially in Indo-China & Algeria]) we simply Transfered the majority of the Empire's Colonies & Protectorates over to the Commonwealth of Nations, which had originally been founded in the 30's as a Looser Union to compliment the Empire by bringing together countries outside it. and Concequently have the Largest Post-Colonial Influence (Geopolitical & Cutural) of all, to the Frogs Irritation ;-)

[TSR1989RN]

@girlgarde Although i should point out that although it is undeniable that we chose our Allies Poorly, we technically lost the Empire to a Combination of Inter-War Political Bungleing (with regards to India & the Middle East), & Post War US Financial Blackmail (as among the clauses in the post War Loan to cover Lend Lease was to give up our Economic Control over the Empire & open it up Commercially to US Trade [effectively rendering the Empire no longer Economically Viable]).

[girlgarde]

@TSR1989RN Sorry about overusing the word "You". At any rate, that's what I figured that that's why the French ended up allied with the British, they couldn't beat them so they decided to be allied with them for protection. While it worked for them, they were detrimental to the British and contributed to the latter party losing their empire. That's something both your people and the Germans have in common, they both got stuck with crappy allies that cost them everything in the end.

[TSR1989RN]

@girlgarde Well despite the slight overuse on your part of "you" i agree with your point, another example of Politicians screwing up at all our cost.

For me the main reason the French decided to start working with us (rather than continue their age old rivalry) towards the end of the 1800's was more to do with the realisation that they couldn't match us in Industrial Power nor in Shipbuilding, something even Germany wasn't able to outcompete us in either

(till post WW2 anyway).

[girlgarde]

@TSR1989RN Yeah, you British and the Imperial Germans could probably have dominated Europe with your combined power. You're right that the Germans would have made better allies then the French turned out to be. You British and the other nations in the empire (like my native Canada) constantly had to bail out the French in WW1 and they constantly begged the Russians to launch ill conceived offensives on the Eastern Front which ended in failure. You guys picked the wrong ally in mainland Europe.