Accounts by German prisoners of war at Camp Spiegel describing the voyage of SMS EMDEN

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
Link: https://collections.sea.museum/en/objects/194312
Item number: 00054347
Access rights: Digitised
Country of origin: Australia
Place: Holsworthy (Liverpool) Camp
Language: German; English
Description from source: Overall: 225 × 180 × 15 mm, 168 g, Ink on paper.
Physical format: Books; Diaries
Abstract: 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.
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