Originally Posted by Tomcat

Well Hitler did say "biggest is best" maybe that is the reason for the Bismarck and Tirpitz.

Commerce raiding I feel did very little. The Starving of Britain would require many ships and boats, and how would they get all these ships out to the Atlantic time and time again? Now even if they did, the British had the ships to spare to assign larger ships to escort duties to protect the convoys, not to mention to the Commerce raid hunter squadrons used to hunt down ships like the Graf Spee.