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(d) “In 1906, Britain’s Royal Navy took delivery of HMS Dreadnought, with its groundbreaking armament of big guns. Wilhelm and top members of his navy and government responded with plans to build two dreadnoughts and one battle cruiser per year * * * Four battle cruisers were produced in Kiel from 1907 to 1910 * * * the Reichskriegshafen Kiel, the imperial war harbor here, profited. By the time war broke out in 1914, the navy had 22 pre-dreadnought ships, 14 dreadnoughts and four battle cruisers.”
(i) HMS Dreadnought
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought
(ii) HMS Dreadnought (1906)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Dreadnought_(1906)
(In commission 1906-1919; the first battleship of her era to have a uniform main battery; the first capital ship to be powered by steam turbines, making her the fastest battleship in the world at the time of her completion; did not participate in any of World War I's naval battles as she was being refitted during the Battle of Jutland in 1916
(c) Reichskriegshafen
German English dictionary:
* reich (noun neuter): “empire”
* krieg (noun masculine): “war”
* hafen (noun masculine): “port, harbor”
* kriegshafen (noun masculine): “naval port, naval harbor”
(e) “Naval historians, however, tend to accord more significance to Germany’s U-boats, which were responsible for the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, for instance, eventually helping to draw the United States into Europe’s Great War. A similar shipbuilding boom erupted in the 1930s after Hitler took power and reached an agreement with Britain, ushering in a new wave of production of submarines and surface battle vessels. The shipbuilding made Kiel a prime target for Allied bombs, and by the end of the war in 1945, it was 80 percent destroyed. * * * Submarines are still built here. Sailors bob on Kiel Sound.”
(i) RMS Lusitania
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania(1906-1915; The ship's name was taken from Lusitania, an ancient Roman province on the west of Iberian Peninsula the region that now is Southern Portugal and Extremadura)
(ii) RMS = Royal Mail Ship
A similar shipbuilding boom erupted in the 1930s after Hitler took power and reached an agreement with Britain, ushering in a new wave of production of submarines and surface battle vessels. The shipbuilding made Kiel a prime target for Allied bombs, and by the end of the war in 1945, it was 80 percent destroyed.
(iii) bob (vi): "(with adverbial of direction) make a sudden move so as to appear or disappear <a lady bobbed up from beneath the counter>"
www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/bob
(f) “The histories of two concrete memorials illustrate the scars. One was originally intended to honor Germany’s naval dead in World War I. The other is the Flandernbunker, or Flanders bunker, built outside the main surviving military base here. Its name stems from a Nazi campaign to lionize the Germans killed in the World War I trenches, and it sheltered military commanders and select civilians in the global conflict that ignited two decades later. Today, a local art historian, Jens Rönnau, runs the bunker as an alternative arts and conference center with a goal of teaching peace and how to avoid future wars.”
Flandernbunker - Mahnmal Kilian e.V.
www.mahnmalkilian.de/flandernbunker.html
is in Kiel.
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