I remain willing to play Germany if there's sufficient interest in having that country active.
The nation's substantial infrastructure could be a difficulty if fully utilized. However, the inability to make much use of that infrastructure would, to me, result in much of it being lost: the workforce would be laid off and move to other trades, the idle yards would rust out, etc. Other yards would become concerned only with building civilian shipping, in which case they'd also be "lost" to me as a player.
So although Germany may be entitled to a substantial amount of infrastructure, I would incorporate some economics and cut back the infrastructure to a level somewhere on par with Greece or India by the mid-20's. If the navy were then to increase back up in size, the infrastructure would increase again as well.
No ideas yet regarding politics or naval designs, since I am hazy at best on the historical situation in Germany before Hitler came around.
Can anybody point me to a list of the ships retained by Germany after the war?
J
PS: I'm "Rocky", now, am I?