Gerhard Koop > Quotes

“Instead of the heavy cruiser types with which it equipped itself, the German Navy might have been better served by a class of well-armoured, fast, diesel-driven light cruisers of optimum armament for commerce-raiding purposes. This was not given consideration.”
― Gerhard Koop, Pocket Battleships of the Deutschland Class: Warships of the Kriegsmarine

“The original intention of the Westwall was to guarantee to Hitler’s neighbours to his west that he had no territorial ambitions in that direction.”
― Gerhard Koop, German Light Cruisers of World War II: Warships of the Kriegsmarine

“Oil for steam-turbine and diesel-driven warships was, naturally, vastly more convenient but had to be imported – and Germany was easy to blockade by sea.”
― Gerhard Koop, Pocket Battleships of the Deutschland Class: Warships of the Kriegsmarine