Play World of Warships here: https://wo.ws/45moji3 Thank you World of Warships for sponsoring this video. During registration use the code WARSHIPS to get for free: 500 doubloons, 2 million credits, 7 Days of Premium Account time, and a tier IV ship! Applicable to new users only. Today we look at a German battleship class that was considered by the British as Battle Cruisers during the Second World War, since they were under gunned, yet the two battle ships of the Scharnhorst class were the most successful German World War 2 battleships and inflicted more damage than the famous Bismarck class. The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were able to sink not only 1 carrier and 2 destroyers, but also several merchant ships as well. »» GET BOOKS & VIDEOS «« » Stukabook - Doctrine of the German Dive-Bomber - http://stukabook.com » The Assault Platoon of the Grenadier-Company November 1944 (StG 44) - http://sturmzug.com » Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com » Tank Assault - Combat Manual of the Soviet Tank Forces 1944 - http://stm44.com » IS-2 Stalin's Warhammer - http://www.is-2tank.com » StuG: Ausbildung, Einsatz und Führung der StuG Batterie - http://stug-hdv.de » Achtung Panzer? Zur Panzerwaffe der Wehrmacht - http://panzerkonferenz.de » Panzerkonferenz Video - http://pzkonf.de »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon - see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis » YouTube Membership - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA/join »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized »» SOURCES «« Hildebrand, Hans H./Röhr, Albert/Steinmetz, Hans-Otto: Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe. Biographien - ein Spiegel der Marinegeschichte von 1815 bis zur Gegenwart. Band 7: Geschichtlicher Überblick Schiffsbiographien von Preußischer Adler bis Ulan, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Hamburg, Germany, o.J. Wagner, Gerhard/Arbeitskreis für Wehrforschung (Hgg.): Lagevorträge der Oberbefehlshabers der Kriegsmarine vor Hitler 1939 - 1945, Lehmann: München, 1972. Garzke, William H.; Dulin Jr, Robert O.; Jurens, William: Battleship Bismarck: A Design and Operational History. Seaforth Publishing: Barnsley, UK, 2019. Mawdsley, Evan: The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II. Yale University Press: New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 2019. Symonds, Craig L.: World War II at Sea. A Global History. Oxford University Press: New York, 2018. O’Hara, Vincent P.: The German Fleet at War, 1939-1945, 1st Naval Institute Press pbk. ed, Naval Institute Press: Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 2011. German Extended Translation (used for this video) Potter, E.B.; Nimitz, Ch. W.; Rohwer, Jürgen: Seemacht – Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Drachinifel: Scharnhorst: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD6pgMf1TTM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Allied_attacks_on_the_German_battleship_Tirpitz 00:00 Intro 00:48 World of Warships 02:03 Under Gunned 02:34 28 cm vs 38 cm Setup 04:26 Why Under Gunned? 06:08 Why Successful 07:24 Merchant Ships 08:07 Diverting & Binding Enemy Resources 10:17 Summary 11:01 World of Warships 11:22 Outro #sponsored #worldofwarship #scharnhorst #gneisenau #ww2 #battleship #kriegsmarine