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Here is your chance to pick up a wonderful grouping to Kriegsmarine Frigate Captain Johannes Weise. What makes this grouping interesting is that his promotion document from the rank of Korvettenkapitän to Fregattenkapitän is signed personally by Adolf Hitler. The medal bar includes a 1914 Iron Cross 2nd class, a War Merit Cross 2nd class, a Hindenburg Cross, a 25 year service cross and an 8 year service medal. The award documents for each of these medals are also included with the grouping. There are other earlier promotion documents associated with Johannes Weise as well. Click HERE to view more images of this grouping! In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, the Kriegsmarine grew rapidly during German naval rearmament in the 1930s. The 1919 treaty had limited the size of the German navy previously, and prohibited the building of submarines.The Kriegsmarine ‘s most significant ships were the U-boats, most of which were constructed after Plan Z was abandoned at the beginning of World War II. Wolfpacks were rapidly assembled groups of submarines which attacked British convoys during the first half of the Battle of the Atlantic but this tactic was largely abandoned by May 1943 when U-boat losses mounted. Along with the U-boats, surface commerce raiders (including auxiliary cruisers) were used to disrupt Allied shipping in the early years of the war, the most famous of these being the heavy cruisers Admiral Graf Spee and Admiral Scheer and the battleship Bismarck . However, the adoption of convoy escorts, especially in the Atlantic, greatly reduced the effectiveness of surface commerce raiders against convoys. Free shipping ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD & I don’t charge PayPal fees like some of the other guys!
