Yep, I agree Hitler was quite afraid of losing things that would make him look bad...

Anyway, I read of plan Z a while ago:

On 27 January 1939 Hitler ordered that the development of the navy he adopted was to take the highest priority, even before the army, air forces and exports. Thus he had finally shaped the shipbuilding programme outlined yet in the end of 1938. This programme, known as the Plan Z, foresaw that by 1948 the German navy should have achieved the following dimensions (including ships already existing or being built):


10 big battleships (including two of Gneisenau type),
12 pocket battleships (later - battle cruisers),
3 old battleships,
4 aircraft carriers,
5 heavy cruisers,
16 light cruisers 8000t and 6 light cruisers of 6000t,
22 scout cruisers,
63 destroyers,
90 torpedo boats,
27 oceanic submarines,
62 submarines IX-C, 100 submarines VII-C and 60 submarines II 4
Apart from that also minelayers, patrol boats, minesweepers, submarine chasers etc. - altogether about 300 ships.

http://wwnavy.tripod.com/Germany/planz.html

From the military point of view the small number of aircraft carriers foreseen by the Plan Z was its weak point.


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I myself have not heard much of it before, just knew it existed. Well, Hitler did have many plans going on at the same time....

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