Флот открытого моря
In the midst of the disastrous situation for the "Reich", the Kiel mutiny broke out with the sailors of the High Seas Fleet mutinying rather going on a "death cruise" in the North Sea, which was intended to see the High Seas Fleet destroyed in a battle with the Anglo-American Grand Fleet just so that German admirals could claim that the High Seas Fleet had not been useless in the war. Renouvin wrote that for the German elites, the High Seas Fleet mutiny was the final straw, which made them determined to end the war while something could be saved for the "Reich", rather than see Germany destroyed forever as a great power and/or swept from power by the revolution that the mutiny had sparked.