Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Where Germany could build the H-class battleships

Germany's later H-class orders would return to the heavy-warship yards already equipped to build Scharnhorst and Bismarck.

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Question

Which yards were expected to build Germany's H-, J-, K-, L-, M-, and N-class battleships?

Short answer

The same yards that built Scharnhorst and Bismarck, because they already had the required infrastructure.

Notes

The H-, J-, K-, L-, M-, and N-class battleship orders would return to the yards that built Scharnhorst and Bismarck. Those facilities already possessed the infrastructure for ships of comparable scale. Yard allocation therefore depended on established heavy-warship capacity rather than spreading orders evenly across German industry.