Bismarck & Tirpitz probably, then the British K G Vs. Firepower is actually pretty hard to use as a reference point as most of them (bar the 11" gun German ships) are about on a "level", but these ships seem to generally be able to absorb much more damage than the others, and are fast to boot.
As to the triple turret ships:
The Nelson and Rodney have big guns, but they're slow, can't fire astern (HUGE downside when the AIs using them, as it reacts to damage by turning the ship away from the enemy), and are not that hard to sink. I don't think the 16" gun fires very fast or very accurately either.
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are fast and reasonably tough, unless you get the lucky-flooding-hit bug, but the 11" guns in spite of good accuracy don't hit other battleships hard enough. Lowest ammo capacity of any battleships in the game as well.
The Panzerschiffe (Graf Spee, Lutzow, Scheer) aren't really battleships at all. They're cruisers on steroids, and get damaged and sunk like cruisers. Two or three of them can take a real battleship, but it's a risky business.
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