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Zones of restricted development in Northern France on account of unexploded shells in the ground from World War 1.
The red zone has the most intense concentration of WW1 ordnance where virtually no new development may occur.
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During the invasion of Norway the Kriegsmarine lost half of their Destroyers, in part because the Royal Navy sent a battleship deep into the confined waters of a fiord.
Of the light cruisers Königsberg and Karlsruhe were sunk in Noway leaving Emden, Koln , Leipzig and Nürnberg and some of them needed repairs.
The heavy cruisers fared ever worse, Graf Spee had already been scuttled in South America, had run aground Blücher got sunk by obsolete weapons. Hipper was badly damaged by a collision with Glowworm. Lützow ran aground and was out of action.
The battlecruiser Renown had taken on both Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and because of rules to avoid damage they fled. Both were damaged later in the Norwegian campaign so were out of action. Bismark and Tirpitz weren't ready yet.
For operation Sealion it would nearly have been Prinz Eugen and escorts vs RN. (There were also 7 destroyers and 16 torpedo-boats (light destroyers) and I can't remember if it was 3? light cruisers)
After loosing the Battle of Britain the Luftwaffe would not have air supremacy over the Channel so the Kriegsmarine would be at the mercy of night-ambush specialists who had better, more reliable radars and used them.
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