For the German fleet, battleships of the Nassau and Ostfriesland types can rightfully be called staged. Moreover, their appearance meant a completely new course for the German Empire in world geopolitics. And the point here is not so much in a purely military point of view (these were the first dreadnoughts in Germany) - the appearance of these ships meant that Kaiser Germany accepted the challenge posed by Great Britain with the construction of the Dreadnought on the issue of dominance at sea.