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==Major wartime operations== * [[Operation Wikinger|''Wikinger'']] ("Viking") (1940) – foray by destroyers into the North Sea * [[Operation Weserübung|''Weserübung'']] ("Operation [[Weser]]") (1940) – invasion of Denmark and Norway * [[Operation Juno|''Juno'']] (1940) – operation to disrupt Allied supplies to Norway * [[Operation Nordseetour|''Nordseetour'']] (1940) – first Atlantic operation of ''Admiral Hipper'' * [[Operation Berlin (Atlantic)|''Berlin'']] (1941) – Atlantic cruise of ''Scharnhorst'' and ''Gneisenau'' * ''[[Operation Rheinübung|Rheinübung]]'' ("[[Rhine]] exercise") (1941) – breakout by ''Bismarck'' and ''Prinz Eugen'' * [[Operation Doppelschlag|''Doppelschlag'']] ("Double blow") (1942) – anti-shipping operation off [[Novaya Zemlya]] by ''Admiral Scheer'' and ''Admiral Hipper'' * [[Operation Sportpalast|''Sportpalast'']] (1942) – aborted operation (including ''Tirpitz'') to attack Arctic convoys * [[Operation Rösselsprung (1942)|''Rösselsprung'']] ("[[Knight (chess)|Knights]] Move") (1942) – operation (including ''Tirpitz'') to attack Arctic [[convoy PQ 17]] * [[Operation Wunderland|''Wunderland'']] (1942) – anti-shipping operation in Kara Sea by ''Admiral Scheer'' * ''[[Second Happy Time|Paukenschlag]]'' ("Drumbeat" ("Beat of the Kettle Drum"); "Second Happy Time") (1942) – U-boat campaign off the United States east coast * [[Operation Neuland|''Neuland'']] ("New Land") (1942) – U-boat campaign in the Caribbean Sea; launched in conjunction with Operation Drumbeat * [[Operation Regenbogen (Arctic)|''Regenbogen'']] ("Rainbow") (1942) – failed attack on Arctic convoy JW 51B, by ''Admiral Hipper'' and ''Lützow'' * ''[[Channel Dash|Cerberus]]'' (1942) – movement of capital ships from Brest to home ports in Germany (Channel Dash) * [[Operation Ostfront|''Ostfront'']] ("East front") (1943) – final operation of ''Scharnhorst'', to intercept [[convoy JW 55B]] * [[Operation Domino|''Domino'']] (1943) – second aborted Arctic sortie by ''Scharnhorst'', ''Prinz Eugen,'' and destroyers * [[Operation Zitronella|''Zitronella'']] ("Lemon extract") (1943) – raid upon Allied-occupied Spitzbergen (Svalbard) * [[Operation Hannibal|''Hannibal'']] (1945) – evacuation proceedings from [[Courland]], [[Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia|Danzig-West Prussia]], and [[East Prussia]] * [[Operation Deadlight|''Deadlight'']] (1945) – the British Royal Navy's postwar scuttling of ''Kriegsmarine'' U-boats
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