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BONUS EPISODE: The Strange Journey of the SMS Emden

A 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

The Rube - by The Dollop actually lead me in a way to this podcast 😂 love it

Brode Bullington

babe wake up new corpse infrastructure just dropped: load bearing roaches

Robert Heilman

It 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

This sounds a lot like the plot of Patrick O'Brian,'s Aubrey-Maturin novel "Treason's Harbour."

Major Dork Thorklestein, HonFRS

Joe 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

Fun fact: last name "von Mücke" translates to "of mosquito"

Clemens Bowen


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