BONUS EPISODE: The Strange Journey of the SMS Emden
Added 2024-07-03 07:41:10 +0000 UTCA crew of German sailors who begin WWI as raiders in the pacific ocean end up in running gun battles through the Ottoman Empire on camel back.
Sources:
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/sms-emden-utm_sourcepenultimate.html
https://www.historynet.com/karl-friedrich-max-von-muller-captain-of-the-emden-during-world-war-i/
https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/germanys-bold-naval-raider/
https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/blog/the-curious-case-of-the-emden-bell
Fred McClement. Guns in Paradise: The Saga of the Cruiser Emden
Comments
Regarding German leftovers from Tsingtao I don’t know about kids, but I do know that they left a brewery behind and now Tsingtao is the second most globally consumed beer.
Solysp
2024-08-08 19:05:53 +0000 UTCThe Rube - by The Dollop actually lead me in a way to this podcast 😂 love it
Brode Bullington
2024-08-05 15:21:19 +0000 UTCbabe wake up new corpse infrastructure just dropped: load bearing roaches
Robert Heilman
2024-07-25 21:21:22 +0000 UTCIt was a really big story at the time in germany. Even our rather local newspaper ran „News on the Emden“-Special Segments sometimes Daily as their exploits were reported back to germany.
Heinz Seutter
2024-07-24 10:17:18 +0000 UTCThis sounds a lot like the plot of Patrick O'Brian,'s Aubrey-Maturin novel "Treason's Harbour."
Major Dork Thorklestein, HonFRS
2024-07-17 00:02:50 +0000 UTCJoe if you want a cardio sport check out some indoor soccer in your area. It’s a much smaller field (closer to the size of a hockey rink) and it’s much more intense than full field soccer!
Ducktownfc
2024-07-11 20:43:08 +0000 UTCFun fact: last name "von Mücke" translates to "of mosquito"
Clemens Bowen
2024-07-10 15:00:29 +0000 UTC