The German Kriegsmarine Deutschland-class ‘pocket battleship’, Admiral Scheer, alongside at port, in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, c. 1936. [1532 x 1199]

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    1. IndependentWeekend on

      Relative to most heavy cruisers of that era, it was heavily armed, but lightly armoured, and so built to outrun and outgun most other cruisers. it was designed to be a high seas raider.

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