Some info:
The scuttling of the German fleet took place at the Royal Navy's base at Scapa Flow, in Scotland, after the end of the First World War. The High Seas Fleet was interned there under the terms of the Armistice whilst negotiations took place over the fate of the ships. Fearing that all of the ships would be seized and divided amongst the allied powers, the German commander, Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, decided to scuttle the fleet.
This scuttling would result in the sinking of a total of 10 battleships, 5 battlecruisers and 32 cruisers,
The Imperial Japanese Navy was still using refitted battlecruisers and ships laid down during and shortly after WWI in WW2 ( e.g the KongÅ-class battlecruiser. The Royal Navy was still using ships like HMS Hood (although slightly dated without her proposed rebuild) and the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, from 1916 and 1914 respectively.
Would they have been retrofitted like the Imperial Japanese Navy was doing? Were there any comments from Nazi officials either criticizing or reminiscing of this fleet?
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It is unlikely they would ever have seen Germany ever again in any case. The Allied camp was of two minds. France and Italy each want a large number of them to bolster their small number of Dreadnoughts. While England wanted them all sunk to protect her undisputed mastery. So in the end Britain got what they basically wanted.
If push had really come to shove it is likely only a handful of the ships would have been transferred amd thus probably scrapped in aftermath of the Washington Naval treaty anyway. Operating a large ship of foreign make is no easy task.
Germany was afterall limited to a handful of escorts and pre Dreadnoughts. And still would have been had they not been sunk as evidenced by them not being allowed to build new either.
Many of the ships likely would have required major maintenance efforts to become battle ready too. The fate of the Russian navy is a goid example of what can happen to a fleet after only a few years of neglect.