Germany's naval ambitions during World War II included the construction of the Graf Zeppelin, its first and only aircraft carrier, which was never completed or commissioned due to various challenges.
The Treaty of Versailles imposed severe restrictions on the German navy, leading to the innovative design of pocket battleships to circumvent these limitations. These ships, though effective within their constraints, were eventually outclassed by the Royal Navy's battlecruisers and France's fast battleships.
And while Bismarck and Tripitz may have been the largest warships completed in Europe during the Second World War, she would have been dwarfed by Japan's Yamato as well as even the U.S. Navy's Iowa-class. Unlike the Tiger tank or StG44 assault rifle, the Bismarck-class simply wasn't nearly as revolutionary and in truth, she was hardly even that evolutionary. In the end, she
The Bismarck class, which included the Bismarck and the Tirpitz, was designed in the mid-1930s as the German answer to French naval expansion (especially France’s two Richelieu-class battleships).