The German Navy is still shrouded in myth, and in many ways it is surrounded by a heroic aura. Perhaps this was due to the fact that the German Navy was practically not involved in war crimes, unlike the ground forces, which throughout the war had direct contact with the civilian population in the occupied territories. All about the history of the Kriegsmarine - headquarters and aces of submarine warfare, battleships and submarines, destroyers and torpedo boats - in the Kriegsmarine encyclopedia. Navy of the Third Reich."