Hitler's Forgotten Flotillas: Kriegsmarine Security Forces-希特勒被遗忘的舰队：克里格斯曼安全部队

作者：Lawrence Paterson

书名：Hitler's Forgotten Flotillas: Kriegsmarine Security Forces《希特勒被遗忘的舰队：克里格斯曼安全部队》

中文简介：纳粹德国海军（德语：Kriegsmarine，意为战争海军）是指1935年至1946年期间的德国海军。战争海军取代了第一次世界大战的德意志帝国海军和魏玛共和国的国家海军，为德国国防军中的海军力量。战争海军起源于一战后《凡尔赛条约》的严格限制，当时明文规定其吨位总数和禁止潜艇的研制，但在魏玛共和国的海军人员暗中推动下，与外国企业合作研究海军科技。其后阿道夫·希特勒上台废除《凡尔赛条约》和签订《英德海军协定》，德国海军开始大量建造新式船舰。在重建的过程里，德国海军曾研制一个特殊的舰种：装甲舰和执行大型造舰计划：Z计划。原本德国海军预计1945年为开战时间，计划建立一支能与头号假想敌：英国皇家海军匹敌的水面舰队，其中包括建造航空母舰。然而第二次世界大战在1939年爆发，德国海军在许多方面都尚未准备，便以一支有限力量的海军去攻击运载英国国内需求物资的商船，并消灭因分散护航而较弱的英国海军舰队
 
英文简介：This study of the Kriegsmarine's Sicherungsstreitkräfte, their security forces, fills a gap in the study of the German navy in World War II. This book describes the wide array of vessels including patrol boats, minesweepers, submarine hunters, barrage breakers, landing craft, minelayers, and even the riverine flotilla that patrolled the Danube as it snaked towards the Black Sea. These vessels may not have provided the glamour associated with capital ships and U-boats, but they were crucial to the survival of the Kriegsmarine at every stage of hostilities.
As naval construction was unable to keep pace with the likely demand for security vessels, Grossadmiral Erich Raeder turned to the conversion of merchant vessels. For example, trawlers were requisitioned as patrol boats (Vorpostenboote) and minesweepers (Minensucher), while freighters, designated Sperrbrecher, were filled with buoyant materials and sent to clear minefields. Submarine hunters (U-Boot Jäger) were requisitioned fishing vessels. More than 120 flotillas operated in wildly different conditions, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, and eighty-one men were to be awarded the Knight's Cross; some were still operating after the cessation of hostilities clearing German minefields. Paterson documents organizational changes, describes the vessels, and recounts individual actions of ships at sea. Extensive appendices are included.