Eagle From Nazi ‘Pocket Battleship’ Ordered To Be Sold A court in Uruguay has argued that a controversial artifact must be sold. It is common knowledge today that after Adolf Hitler's Nazi party took power in Germany in 1933, the nation began to rearm its military in direct opposition to the restrictions placed upon it by the Treaty of Versailles. Yet, in fact, the rearmament of the German Reichsmarine (Navy), later renamed Kriegsmarine, began during the Weimar Republic with the building of a new class of heavy cruisers. In total, three Deutschland- class warships were built between 1929 and 1936,...