265: War at Sea '41 Pt. 3 - Operation Berlin
History of the Second World War

265: War at Sea '41 Pt. 3 - Operation Berlin

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 13, 202624 min

In early 1941, the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau set out on Operation Berlin, an attempt to break into the Atlantic and strike at Britain's convoy lifeline. This episode follows Admiral Günther Lütjens as he weighs weather, fuel, British patrols, and strict orders against the promise of a major commerce-raiding success, while also examining how the absence of German carrier aviation limited what the surface fleet could accomplish. When the two battleships finally found convoy HX-106, the presence of the aging battleship Ramillies revealed the central tension of the operation: Germany's most powerful raiders could threaten the Atlantic, bu...

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podcast episodes, plus special member-only episodes, roughly once a month. Head on over to historyofthesecondworldwar.com slash members to find out more. The previous two episodes discussed the plans that Germany had for the interdiction of merchant shipping en route to the British Isles through the use of various types of ships. This included the Deutschland-class cruisers like the

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