Keeping in mind that an AGNA is still on the table in the future, so six isn't a hard limit... also that Germany's pre-dreads can only be replaced twenty years after the start of construction, so they're technically not even allowed six yet.
Right, which is why I'd suggest uptonning to a...
Does Germany even need six? Three or four is more than enough for a fleet-in-being, and the rest of that steel can go to panzerschiffes and proper seaworthy CLs and DDs (which the Kriegsmarine was short of).
Dunno, but apparently it was a thing.
Fun fact: in '64, the West German government finally got around to paying the Askaris' back pay. Not many of them could provide proof of ID... but when each one was given a broom and asked to perform the German manual of arms, not a single one failed the test.
L-V told Hitler to go f**k himself (though apparently in much less polite terms). He knew firsthand from his little adventure in Africa that the Aryan master race was garbage.
Speaking of geopolitics, I can’t imagine Californie being happy with sooner or later being dragged into every single one of the home country’s little wars…