World War Two: Kriegsmarine Heavy Cruiser Lutzow 1939

The Nazi German Kriegsmarine warship Lutzow, an Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser being launched down the slipway at the Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft (Deschimag) shipyard on 1st July 1939 in Bremen, Germany. In February 1940 the incomplete Lutzow was sold to the Soviet Navy, renamed Petropavlovsk and still unfinished when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, the ship provided artillery support in the defense of Leningrad before eventually being sunk in April 1942. (Photo by Keystone/HultonArchive/Getty Images).