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Early Access: Why send the Bismarck? (Sponsored) (Patreon)

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Bismarck: Just a Suicide Mission?

Sponsored by World of Warships: Legends! Click here ► https://wo.ws/2Q3sMnm to check out the game on PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5 or Xbox One X, Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X. Most of you know about the German battleship Bismarck, its initial battle with HMS Hood and Prince of Wales, its evasion of the British forces until its steering was hit by Swordfish Torpedo bombers from HMS Ark Royal and its ultimate demise. Yet, what rarely gets covered is the strategic and operational aspects behind sending out a battleship into the Atlantic. »» GET OUR BOOK «« » Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon - see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis » YouTube Membership - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA/join »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized » SOURCES « BArch, RM 6/1957: Operationen und Taktik: Auswertung wichtiger Ereignisse des Seekrieges. Heft 3: Die Atlantikunternehmung der Kampfgruppe “Bismarck” – „Prinz Eugen“, Mai 1941. Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine: Berlin, Oktober 1942. Garzke, William H.; Dulin Jr, Robert O.; Jurens, William: Battleship Bismarck: A Design and Operational History. Seaforth Publishing: Barnsley, UK, 2019. Mawdsley, Evan: The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II. Yale University Press: New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 2019. Symonds, Craig L.: World War II at Sea. A Global History. Oxford University Press: New York, 2018. German Extended Translation (used for this video) Potter, E.B.; Nimitz, Ch. W.; Rohwer, Jürgen: Seemacht – Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Kast, Bernhard (ed.); Bergs, Christoph (ed.): The Assault Platoon of the Grenadier-Company November 1944. German Army Pamphlet – Merkblatt 25a/16. Deutsch / English. Bernhard Kast: Linz, Austria, 2020. #Sponsored #Bismarck #WhySendTheBismarck

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Volker Hartmann

at 8:50: Shouldn't it be two times "Überwasserstreitkräfte"? Was this a tipo by you or is it a tipo in the original document?

Volker Hartmann

Really enjoyed this episode very much! I had been thinking about this topic repeatedly in the last months. The indirect effects of Operation Berlin have a similarity to the effect of virtual interdiction (or was it suppression? I think Bismarck explained it in one of your shared videos: The idea was that the mere presence of a ground attack aircraft could discourage enemy ground forces from moving. This tactical effect was far greater than the actual damage done.) That Great Britain had to suspend or restrict the convoys while Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were in the Atlantic had a stronger inpact on the trade and thus economy not only than the ships, that were actually sunk, but also than the Uboats. This is something that I guess gets overlooked quite often...at least I was not fully aware. - Furthermore the proponents of building just uboats (I was one of them for a long time) overlook the point that Mahan makes: that comerce raiding to be strategically effective demands that the raiding navy also has strong main battle forces. The reasoning being that that forces the enemy to divert forces from escort duty. Imho the strategic mistake was to send out the Bismarck without direct or indirect strengthening of its operational capacity: i.e. the Kriegsmarine should have waited for the Tirpitz to be ready or commit the Bismarck & Prinz Eugen as well as Scharnhorst & Gneisenau at the same time. That would have maximized the desired effect. But I admit that I don't know whether that would have been an option in the near future and time worked against Germany. Albeit it must be said that using Bismarck as a fleet in being by moving her to Norway would have been an option.

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the plan was actually to also send the Gneisenau with the Bis & Prinz Eugen, but I think it was bombed in port; also some previous damage from operating for 2 months as well.