Was the proposed 1942 aircraft-carrier conversion of the liner Europa too ambitious for Germany?
Short answerYes; it was an aspirational emergency proposal unsupported by the industrial coordination and Luftwaffe-Kriegsmarine cooperation needed to make it work.
NotesThe Europa proposal offered impressive size on paper, but Germany lacked the institutional machinery to turn that hull into a coherent carrier system. Weak cooperation among the navy, Luftwaffe, and wider armaments organization was the decisive obstacle. Displacement alone could not supply the aircraft, doctrine, training, and interservice coordination needed to make a carrier viable.