Germany's Last Battleship vs Royal Navy Battle of North Cape 1943 #shorts #ww2 #ww1 #shorts

On December 26th, 1943, fourteen Royal Navy warships hunted down Germany's last operational battleship Scharnhorst in the freezing Arctic darkness near Norway's North Cape. The thirty-two thousand ton German battlecruiser was racing to attack Allied convoy JW 55B when Admiral Bruce Fraser's HMS Duke of York intercepted her in what became a twelve-hour battle fought in brutal Arctic conditions. British fourteen-inch guns and destroyer torpedo attacks devastated the Scharnhorst, with only thirty-six of her nearly two thousand crew surviving the freezing waters. This decisive British victory eliminated Germany's surface threat in Arctic waters forever, securing the vital supply route to the Soviet Union. Over the next eighteen months, four million tons of war materials flowed virtually unopposed to the Eastern Front, accelerating the Soviet advance that would crush Nazi Germany. One battle, one ship, but the consequences helped change the course of World War Two.
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