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Things look different on the open ocean from the way they do on the map at home. GROSSADMIRAL ERICH RAEDER ERMANY'S OBSOLETE BATTLESHIP Schleswig-Holstein began World War II when her 11-inch guns opened fire on Poland's Westerplatte base in Danzig. The navy that went to war in 1939 included 74 warships displacing five hundred tons or more (55 destroyer types or larger) with another fifty-eight building or working up. 1 It faced the British fleet of 275 such ships and the French navy with 106 more. This was not the navy the German commander in chief, Grossadmiral Erich Raeder, expected to deploy when he fought Great Britain. Only the year before Germany had adopted his ambitious Z-Plan, which called for a balanced fleet of more than two hundred large surface warships by 1948. Faced with such disparity in numbers, Raeder nonetheless adopted an offensive posture wherever possible. In the opening months of the war German warships instigated three sea battles against the Allies in the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, and the South Atlantic. ## Table 1.1. Opening Rounds The German navy began the war with strong forces in the Baltic Sea to contain Poland's small, but modern, navy. Under the com

Author

Vincent P. O-Hara

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