Accounts by German prisoners of war at Camp Spiegel describing the voyage of SMS EMDEN
Item
- Title
- Accounts by German prisoners of war at Camp Spiegel describing the voyage of SMS EMDEN
- Subject
- World War, 1914-1918--Australia
- World War, 1914-1918--Sources
- Prisoners of war--Australia
- Voyages and travels
- German language--Writing
- Category
- 3. World War I
- Current holder
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- Date
- 1914
- Item number
- 00054347
- Access rights
- Digitised
- Country of origin
- Australia
- Language
- German
- English
- Description from source
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Overall: 225 × 180 × 15 mm, 168 g, Ink on paper.
- Physical format
- Books
- Diaries
- Abstract
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Extracts of interviews with German prisoners of war at Camp Spiegel, Liverpool, NSW relating to the voyage of the EMDEN from 27 July to 9 November 1914, including descriptions of SMS EMDEN's battle with HMAS SYDNEY. The accounts are written in an Australian school text book. They relate a German sailors' perspective of events concerning EMDEN from just before the outbreak of war on July 27th 1914 to the Battle of Cocos on 9 November. The account of the battle begins with; '9 November - The sun rose blood red, EMDEN's fate symbolised'. Part of a collection of material relating to the German WWI raider SMS EMDEN and crew members who were taken prisoner and interned at Liverpool, NSW, during the war.
- Related resources
- https://www.zotero.org/groups/4688363/oama/items/HPDN4UCJ/
Linked resources
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| Account by 'A Sieber' (in German) describing the fall of Tsingtau and 'The Raid of the Emden' (in English) | Text |
| Emden Archive | Text |