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Re: Today, not 50 years ago

Posted by Jeff on March 4, 2023, 1:19:36, in reply to "Today, not 50 years ago"

In the early 1960s I started taking an active interest in warships. I was amazed that lowly DE's had inherited the names of earlier battleships.

What a come down I thought!

How times change!

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I was writting about ship names used today by the German navy. The Lütjens class was built more than 50 years ago, they are out of service for 20 years or more.

When German navy was re-funded in the 1950s, there were many ships named after persons, e.g. the frigates Scharnhorst, Graf Spee, Hipper, Scheer, Gneisenau, Raule, Brommy... But these very different times regarding the views on German history (with a lot of "former" Nazis still in leading positions of the German state).

Re: Today, not 50 years ago - Lars March 4, 2023, 3:30:23

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[quote] In the early 1960s I started taking an active interest in warships. I was amazed that lowly DE's had inherited the names of earlier battleships. What a come down I thought! How times change! [quote] I was writting about ship names used today by the German navy. The Lütjens class was built more than 50 years ago, they are out of service for 20 years or more. When German navy was re-funded in the 1950s, there were many ships named after persons, e.g. the frigates Scharnhorst, Graf Spee, Hipper, Scheer, Gneisenau, Raule, Brommy... But these very different times regarding the views on German history (with a lot of "former" Nazis still in leading positions of the German state). [/quote] [/quote]

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