Assume for a minute that after a series of increasingly unlikely coincidences that, in May 1940, see a German government agree an armistice with Britain and France (including vacating German-occupied Poland, Denmark, and Norway).
If at that point the new German regime, desperate for cash to sort out its wartime economy and eager to cut expenditure, offered for sale any of the Kriegsmarine heavy units, would the Netherlands be interested in acquiring them? Would there be the manpower and funds available to operate them?
If at that point the new German regime, desperate for cash to sort out its wartime economy and eager to cut expenditure, offered for sale any of the Kriegsmarine heavy units, would the Netherlands be interested in acquiring them? Would there be the manpower and funds available to operate them?