How Did Hitler Use The Bismarck

“Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.” (Adolf Hitler). I feel as if Hitler said this because he wanted to advance the weapons of not only Germany, but for the world. The weapons of war from the American Revolution to the second World War have advanced significantly. From a gunpowder musket to the machine gun; it takes not only a lot of work, but revolutionary thinkers.

One tremendous advance was the Bismarck. The Bismarck was German battleship used by Hitler to protect attacking enemy ships. It was up and running on February 14th 1939; first being used as a radar to attack British Convoys. The Bismarck weighed over 50,000 tons and 40% of the weight was armor; because of the weight it could not go as fast as regular battleships. The fastest the Bismarck could achieve was twenty-nine knots. The crew that could be on the ship was two thousand 200 hundred people and one hundred commanding officers. On May 27th, 1941 and only 116 people survived the sinking of the Bismark. (Bismarck).

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tremendous advances was the submarine, a classic, intelligent weapon of warfare. Even though, the submarine was used slightly at the end of World War I, they were more popular during World War II. It could not only sink warships but merchant ships as well. The average crew number of a submarine was 40 to 80 sailors. The average weight was six thousand nine hundred tons. It could go just above 20 knots as an average and It’s average height was seven stories tall. (Submarines).
Yet another colossal advance was the German U-boat. The first sea-going U-boat was U-27, it was launched in the year, 1939; After what was left of Germany’s submarines were confiscated by other countries. By 1941, Germany had a newer model: VII C. Model VII C was two hundred twenty-six feet long, seven hundred seventy tons, and could go seventeen knots on the ocean’s surface while seven point five knots underwater. It gained a reputation because of its liability; Because of it’s simple design and easy repairs. The VII C model was so successful that the German military made over six hundred. (U-boats).
Forth prodigious advance was the Aircraft carrier. Although the first Aircraft carrier was invented by the Japanese, the United States had the most. With almost 20 in a 6 year period. One of the reasons why the aircraft carriers were invented was because naval technologies were a must have during the World Wards and because of the global nature of World War two. America’s main aircraft carriers were The Yorktown and the Enterprise. The Enterprise was over eight hundred feet long, one hundred feet wide and carried almost three thousand sailors. Great Britain’s main aircraft carriers were the Ark Royal and the Eagle. (Aircraft: Carriers).
Another monumental achievement was the Germany's Enigma Code Machine.

The German Military used the Enigma Machine since 1920. During the time World War Two came along, it had advanced some. The way the machine worked as the operator typed a message and then the Enigma machine scrambled the words using a complicated letter system generated by rotors and electric circuits. To decode a Enigma message, one must need to know the exact settings of the wheels and gears of the machine. German military generals and officers believed that the Enigma Code Machine was unbreakable so they used it for practically everything, battlefield, naval, and just normal war talk. The Polish came close to cracking the Enigma codes by improvising and getting tremendous help from the British at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire where a team of intelligent experts eventually cracked the code.

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In conclusion, the advances in weaponry used during WWII had the biggest impact in today's time. It takes great minds and exceptional actions to make and improve weapons. Hitler looked for revolutionaries, even though he had the wrong idea of what to do with the product of the revolutionaries, he tried to improve the market of weapons. Thinking back from when our ancestors had to use gunpowder muskets to a slow machine gun to our automatic weapons is phenomenal. I couldn’t imagine winning war in today's time with just a musket.