Bismarck would rendezvous with the cruiser Prinz Eugen later that morning before leaving the Baltic Sea. The two ships would ...

Launched on 14 February 1939, the German flagship and pride of the Kriegsmarine, Bismarck was launched. In the darkness of ...

On May 18, 1941, Bismarck and its escort, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, embarked on Operation Rheinübung, a campaign to sink ...

Gedanke zur weiteren Kriegführung,” Operationsbefehl des Flottenchefs für die Atlantikoperation mit Bismarck und Prinz Eugen (Deckname RHEINÜBUNG), April 22, 1941, 1. SKL, Teil C IIb, Westraum- ...

Am 18. Mai 1941 lief die „Bismarck“ in Begleitung des schweren Kreuzers „Prinz Eugen“ sowie von einigen kleineren Kampfschiffen aus Gdingen, damals Gotenhafen, aus. Flottenchef Admiral ...

Bismarck, May 1941, taken from Prinz Eugen That allowed Germany to build a surface fleet of up to 35% of the size of Britain's, and up to 45% in the case of submarines. Five months later ...

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz ...

Setting out from Gotenhafen (modern day Gdynia) with a crew of over 2000 men on 19 May 1941, Bismarck made for the Danish ...

Nachdem Prinz Eugen starb, wurde die private Büchersammlung auf 150.000 Gulden geschätzt. Zum Vergleich: Das Schloss Belvedere in Wien, das nach Eugens Tod zum Verkauf stand, hatte einen Wert ...