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Kriegsmarine
naval warfare branch of Germany's armed forces (1935–1945) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Reichsmarine, later called Kriegsmarine (German pronunciation: [ˈkʁiːksmaˌʁiːnə], War Navy) was the Navy of Weimar Republic from 1919 to 1935 and Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It replaced the Imperial German Navy of World War I and the inter-war Reichsmarine. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany.
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