Well I meant strip it down to lose some weight, not saw the hull into pieces. But I suppose you are right, if there was a different way they probably would have thought of it, and even if they did the German command was not very keen on listening it seems.
Though now that you mention it, constructing them in Italy doesn't sound like a bad idea. The Germans where/are extremely efficient and fast when it comes to constructing things and it is not like they lacked manpower to build it. They had more than two years to do it too. I am sure Mussolini would not of minded, he needed the help, God knows.
Maybe it is just a pipe dream.
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