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The construction contracts for two units were awarded in early 1936.

The Anglo-German Naval Agreement of June 18, 1935, gave the Germans plenty of still available battleship tonnage to construct three battleships each of 35,000 tons standard displacement. Theoretical Studies on a battleship had been recorded in 1933. They had not even the time to catch up this lead. While the Gneisenau class comparable foreign ships were either smaller (as the French Dunkerque class) or had been built in World War One, the new battleship should be superior to any rival, of which most were the result of decades of research and development work, the Germans simply missing. But for a modern, sufficiently fast ship of the desired size there was no suitable design from World War One. When designing the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst they could still fall back on the design for the Mackensen class dating from the World War One. In the late 1920s the German shipbuilders therefore started with a considerable backlog compared with their colleagues in other major powers. In addition, they could not carry out comparative tests, reviews and leading to the trial destruction of foreign ships of trials like the Allies did in the early 1920s. The German warship designers had been denied not only to evaluate the lessons from warship construction of World War One, they lacked also of the indispensable for new concepts by practice. The quarterdeck of Battleship Bismarck.After World War One the enforced setting of design and testing work had an impact on all German ship constructions of WW2. Animated 3D model of battleship Bismarck.

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