{"id":105817,"date":"2026-11-08T04:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=105817"},"modified":"2026-11-07T20:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T01:03:45","slug":"the-bismarck-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/the-bismarck-class\/","title":{"rendered":"The <em>Bismarck<\/em> class: A waste of steel and human lives? &#8211; Nazi Rearmament 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2JGfsFptbmY?si=jL9AmBNvf0rqmOrR\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>World War Two<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 7 Nov 2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Bismarck<\/em> and <em>Tirpitz<\/em> cost Nazi Germany hundreds of millions of <em>Reichsmarks<\/em>, years of construction, and enormous industrial effort. What did the <em>Kriegsmarine<\/em> get in return?<\/p>\n<p><em>Bismarck<\/em> sank <em>HMS Hood<\/em>, but her first Atlantic operation ended with her own destruction. <em>Tirpitz<\/em> spent much of her career in Norwegian fjords, threatening Arctic convoys and drawing Allied attention, ships, and aircraft. Their guns and armor were formidable. Their strategic value is harder to measure.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Nazi Rearmament, Spartacus Olsson examines the <em>Bismarck<\/em> class from its origins in German naval planning to its construction, deployment, and destruction. We explore the compromises behind the design, the resources required to build and maintain the ships, and the gap between Nazi naval ambitions and the war Germany actually fought.<\/p>\n<p>Could those resources have achieved more elsewhere? How much was <em>Tirpitz<\/em>&#8216;s ability to divert Allied forces worth? And can either ship&#8217;s record be understood apart from the disastrous war of aggression they were built to serve?<\/p>\n<p>Watch our complete <em>Bismarck<\/em> and Operation Rhein\u00fcbung miniseries:<br \/>\n   \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ai6MVkhRw7Y\" target=\"_blank\">The Royal Navy&#8217;s Epic Hunt for <em>Bismarck<\/em> &#8211; &#8230;<\/a>  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World War Two Published 7 Nov 2026 Bismarck and Tirpitz cost Nazi Germany hundreds of millions of Reichsmarks, years of construction, and enormous industrial effort. What did the Kriegsmarine get in return? Bismarck sank HMS Hood, but her first Atlantic operation ended with her own destruction. Tirpitz spent much of her career in Norwegian fjords, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1118,7,5,663,230],"tags":[1275,140,30,610,61],"class_list":["post-105817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-battleoftheatlantic","tag-design","tag-navy","tag-norway","tag-ships"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-rwJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105824,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105817\/revisions\/105824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}