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Heavy cruisers of Germany
Another class of German warships is complete, at least as far as a GT is concerned. This one has legs for an eventual upgrade to FT, but the articles are pretty far down on the FAC queue (I'm only halfway to finishing the original project, and I don't exactly have the free time to run FACs every month). In any case, this topic includes the Deutschland class ships, which were originally classified as panzerschiffe (armored ships) and commonly called "pocket battleships", but were actually just over-armed heavy cruisers, something the Germans themselves realized in 1940, when they reclassified the remaining two ships as heavy cruisers. There were two designs for follow-on panzerschiffe, neither of which were completed, and the five Admiral Hippers, two of which were originally ordered as light cruisers. Those two ships were reordered as heavy cruisers, but were never completed. The last ship, Lützow was sold to the USSR and actually fired on advancing German troops during Barbarossa. Parsecboy (talk) 11:13, 13 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Note - Featured topics/Admiral Hipper class cruisers will have to be merged in once this is promoted. There is no corresponding GT for the Deutschland class. Parsecboy (talk) 11:20, 13 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Support - However, perhaps the current Admiral Hipper topic could just be included as a subtopic (as seen here) rather than being merged in and dropped. I'd support either way as it still represents the same scope. GRAPPLE   X  18:39, 15 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Support. I see no need for a subtopic in this case. The merged topic is complete and of manageable size. Rreagan007 (talk) 15:22, 18 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment German cruiser Admiral Scheer has some ambiguous links. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 20:50, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed - thanks for pointing those out. Parsecboy (talk) 11:39, 19 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment, as with the other topic above, I believe several of these articles cite Germany's high sea fleet in the World War. That book is available (freely) online at http://richthofen.com/scheer/ . It might be good to update the references with a link to the online version. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 04:57, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't know that they do - these are all post-WWI designs (and all were built or proposed after Scheer died, incidentally). Parsecboy (talk) 11:02, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
 * My bad then, must have been some other topic I was thinking of. I just might do a general search for articles citing that book and post the result at WP:SHIP. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 14:05, 6 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Support--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 20:06, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Merge of the other topic is done, will promote in the next day or two. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 05:05, 25 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Closed with consensus to promote as good topic. Wizardman  Operation Big Bear 05:10, 26 May 2012 (UTC)