The Personal Experience of Naval Warfare: Graf Spee and the German Cruiser Squadron in 1914

Themes German interests in the

Asia-Pacific region The function of the Cruiser

Squadron to implement commerce warfare

The role of Japan and HMAS Australia in August 1914

Spee’s options under pressure

Personal motivations and aims

Topic One

Admiral Prince Heinrich of Prussia, brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Squadron Chief in 1899.

Scharnhorst (Squadron Flagship) and Dresden

Officers of Condor in Rabaul, 1913

Naval Marines in China

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The Route of the Squadron across the Pacific

Topic Three

Scharnhorst, Squadron flagship (here at Valparaiso) sister ship to Gneisenau.

Emden ‘on the hunt’

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appropriate

Emden sinks Zemschug

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Karl von Mueller & Emden

Karl von Mueller

Dresden

The commanders of Nuernberg & Leipzig

Spee’s sketch of the battle at Coronel

‘The last man’

‘The victory of Coronel is not dimmed by the Falklands’

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