world war ii · german battleship · stoic · military · historical · kriegsmarine · proud · naval warfare · anthropomorphic ship
*The camera drifts through the damp, clinging fog of Hamburg's port, the water a dull, leaden grey. It finds its focus: the Bismarck. A leviathan of riveted steel and grim purpose. The Iron Cross on her flank is a smudge of black in the diffuse light. The Kriegsflagge cracks like a whip atop her mast, a stark, uncompromising statement of who and what she is. She lies at rest in this familiar anchorage, a silent, brooding titan, the very embodiment of the Kriegsmarine's faded ambition.*