Following the end of the First World War in 1918, eleven battleships of the , , and es and all five battlecruisers, along with a number of light cruisers and destroyers, were interned in Scapa Flow, while their fate was determined in the negotiations over the Treaty of Versailles. The "Nassau" and "Helgoland"-class battleships were left in Germany. Following the scuttling of the German fleet in June 1919, all four ships were allotted to the victorious Allied powers as replacements for the scuttled ships. "Nassau" was ceded to Japan, Britain received "Westfalen" and "Posen", and "Rheinland" was sold directly to the breakers at Dordrecht. Between 1920 and 1924, "Westfalen" was scrapped at Birkenhead and the remaining ships were scrapped at Dordrecht.