Wait a second...someone's pulling our leg...the smaller ship is either the Tirpitz or Bismark.
They only had a single funnel. That has to be a model/diarama.
* ok, did some looking around and found that the photos was, in fact, a diarama. The Tirpitz is shown as the BB on the left, the hypothetical H-44 being on the right.
Turns out that photo was created (long before photoshop) to show the relative size comparison of the H-44 class compared to the Tirpitz/Bismark.
They would have certainly been monsters and created a terrible threat to Allied shipping but unless the Luftwaffe could keep the skies clear of Allied warplanes, would have ended up exactly the same as the Yamato...
I think a lot of the crazier plans for plan Z battleships might have come about because there was a choice. Sit in a warm design office and draw up increasingly crazy plans for the mad Charlie Chaplin impersonator or walk about the Russian Steppe carrying a rifle. Certainly sir you want a design for a 200,00ton battleship with triangular gun barrels capable of doing 50 knots I will get right to it and get back to you with the first draft in a year or so.