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Originally Posted by Richard
Hitler scrapped the surface Navy fleet in 1934. No more ships were built but Hitler allowed the U-Boats to be built up, after the victory of 1940 the Navy personnel clicking there heels were now put to work in Fortifying Europe. And all that lovely metal that was earmarked for a surface fleet went on Tanks and Coastal guns along with some more U-Boats.
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Building more U-boats would only threaten one nation, Britain, which is exactly what Hitler
didn't want.
Hitler didn't want war with Britain, he wanted to control mainland Europe and conquer large area's of Eastern Europe, but he wanted the British to look the other way while he did so. Building U-boats would only provoke Britain, but building a few battleships and a small number of other vessels wouldn't, as Britain's navy was well capable of dealing with them.
If Hitler had started to build up his U-boats in 1934 its unlikely that Britain would have gone along with a policy of appeasement, and instead taken a more pro-active role against the rise of German militarism, possibly reacting against the German army's move into the Rhineland in 1936