KMS Scharnhorst

The KMS Scharnhorst is only the second German Dreadnought of WW2 sunk at sea. This is a tribute to this warship and is not intended to promote Nazism. The song is "Du Haust" by Rammestien. No copyright infringment is intended and I suggest if you want to learn more about the ship or the band to go check out the web.

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[itsmepaul57]

If you use Google earth you can go to Kristiensand in Norway where you can still see the massive gun emplacements including the secondary armament of the Sharnhorst - one huge gun still exists - today the whole area is a museum. hard to find but interesting.

[roaklin]

@itsmepaul57 Those guns actually belong to her sister ship when she was heavily damaged in the air raid that lead to her being retired to be rebuilt. Still cool to see them around though.

[egbertvos1]

i dont agree with you,look at the bow of the two ships, the gneisenau has two holes and the scharnhorst one. also the gneisenau carries two anchors at his port side also the bow of gneisenau was much steeper as scharnhorst witch you can see at the pic at 0:17 of your movie, my grandfather was a sailer in wo2 at the prins eugen so i have seen a lot of pics of german war ships and from that i can tell exactly wich one is scharnhorst and witch one is gneisenau.

[roaklin]

Scharnhorst as built had them and then both ships where modified with their Atlantic clipper bow which removed the dual anchors from on side (hold over from WW1 thinking). Your confusing their atlantic bow with the as build straight stems and low forecastle appearances.

[roaklin]

@itsmepaul57 it means You hate

[itsmepaul57]

@chloe7829 Du Haust appears to translate as 'You Live' from German. I was told that the Scharnhorst was sunk before these guns - which were to be fitted as an upgrade - could be fitted.

[itsmepaul57]

Du Haust seems to translate in English as 'You live'

[chloe7829]

@epiphanyvideoprod Congratulations, you have some very illustrious ancestry. My family also goes back a few centuries, to the siege of Valletta by Suleiman II and prior to that to the time of Charles Martell. Isn't history fascinating?

[chloe7829]

I found a very good book compiled by a crew member of the Scharnhorst. He was an avid photographer and his wealth of pictures is in the book.Books title: BATTLESHIP SCHARNHORST

THE CREW PHOTO ALBUM

BY Randall S. Shoker.

[chloe7829]

@egbertvos1 Hi, some time ago I purchased very good plans of the Prinz Eugen from a German company and took them to a model boat club meeting where I met a US sailor who sailed the Prinz to New York. She was a beautiful ship, quite similar in silhouette to the Bismarck. I have 200 scale models of them both and sail them in formation on a local pond, sometime together with the Graf Zeppelin as a carrier group.

Kind regards from Dallas

[chloe7829]

@itsmepaul57 How did the secondary armament of the Scharnhorst get to Kristiansand when she was sunk at sea? And what is this " Du Haust by Rammestien"?

The group is called Rammstein, the song Du hasst mich.

[nalvojo]

Ich wuenschte sehr, das Lied auf die Scharhorst waere hier zu finden und zu hoeren. Es hat die gleiche Melodie wie die des Panzerfahrerlieds, wie ich es von den Kameraden des Heeres gehoert habe. Aber das ist schon 100 Jahre her :-) !

[Koteika2012]

шарнхорст легенда

[JBC814]

It was one good-looking ship. German's finest engineering.