Simplifying Graf Zeppelin with Japanese experience

Graf Zeppelin's convoluted hangar and flight-deck design is set against Japan's decades of carrier construction and operation. German leaders would have to set aside ideological arrogance and racial prejudice to use that experience. Japanese assistance might simplify the ship into a viable carrier with a larger air group and maintenance capacity at sea. Its aircraft could extend reconnaissance for Deutschland-class ships, the Scharnhorst and Bismarck classes, and submarine hunting groups while launching and recovering underway. Floatplanes had to land in damaging salt water and be recovered by crane, forcing the parent ship to slow or stop.