Editing Kriegsmarine (section)

===Post-war division===
After the war, the German surface ships that remained afloat (only the cruisers {{lang|de|Prinz Eugen}} and {{lang|de|Nürnberg}}, and a dozen destroyers were operational) were divided among the victors by the [[Tripartite Naval Commission]]. The US used the heavy cruiser {{lang|de|Prinz Eugen}} in [[nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll]] in 1946 as a target ship for the [[Operation Crossroads]]. Some (like the unfinished aircraft carrier {{ship|German aircraft carrier|Graf Zeppelin||2}}) were used for target practice with conventional weapons, while others (mostly destroyers and torpedo boats) were put into the service of Allied navies that lacked surface ships after the war. The training [[barque]] SSS ''Horst Wessel'' was recommissioned [[USCGC Eagle (WIX-327)|USCGC ''Eagle'']] and remains in active service, assigned to the [[United States Coast Guard Academy]]. The British, French, and Soviet navies received the destroyers, and some torpedo boats went to the Danish and Norwegian navies. For the purpose of mine clearing, the Royal Navy employed German crews and minesweepers from June 1945 to January 1948,<ref>[http://www.janmaat.de/m_gesch0.htm German Mine Sweeping Administration (GMSA)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420121039/http://www.janmaat.de/m_gesch0.htm |date=20 April 2008 }} (in German), accessed: 9 June 2008</ref> organised in the [[German Mine Sweeping Administration]] (GMSA), which consisted of 27,000 members of the former ''Kriegsmarine'' and 300 vessels.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8Uczn3-3F34C&dq=GMSA+mine+sweeping&pg=PA41 Google book review: ''German Seaman 1939–45''] Page: 41, author: Gordon Williamson, John White, publisher: Osprey Publishing, accessed: 9 July 2008</ref>

The destroyers and the Soviet share light cruiser {{lang|de|Nürnberg}} were all retired by the end of the 1950s, but five escort destroyers were returned from the French to the new West German Navy in the 1950s and three 1945 scuttled type XXI and XXIII U-boats were raised by [[West Germany]] and integrated into their new navy. In 1956, with West Germany's accession to [[NATO]], a new navy was established and was referred to as the ''Bundesmarine'' (Federal Navy). Some ''Kriegsmarine'' commanders like [[Erich Topp]] and [[Otto Kretschmer]] went on to serve in the ''Bundesmarine''. In [[East Germany]] the ''[[Volksmarine]]'' (People's Navy) was established in 1956. With the [[German reunification|reunification of Germany]] in 1990, it was decided to use the name ''Deutsche Marine'' ([[German Navy]]).