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Launch day for Schlesien

Line drawing, as built

Crew swabbing the deck

During WWI

In the Baltic with the German fleet, 1924

Schlesien in 1927

Seen from the Kiel Bridge

President Hindenburg visits, May 1927

A map of an inter-war training cruise

Approaching the Panama Canal, 1938

Cadets assemble on the stern

As cadet ship

Sometime prior to 1936

The inter-war German Fleet in the Baltic

Just before the war

During operations in Norway

Winter of 1940-41, at Kiel

Line drawing of final appearance

After hitting a mine, 1945

Scuttled in shallow water in 1945

The wreck following the war

Another shot of the wreck


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