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Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "SMS Emden (1909) - Guide 205" video.
Captain Müller went to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties. He also stopped to pick up the survivors of the French destroyer he sank at Penang, and let a captured British merchant ship go free so that it could carry the French sailors back home. Even though this meant the British ship could report his position.
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@Sei_gsicht If Goeben had failed to reach the Ottomans, we probably wouldn't even recognize the world that resulted. Such nations as Israel, Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia likely wouldn't ever have existed. The Soviet Union might never have happened either, given that Allied victory in WW1 would've come significantly sooner. And the US never would've entered the war.
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@TheNord06 The thing is, that secret treaty was negotiated without actually having the full support of the government. The Ottoman government was very much divided about whether to join the war, with Sultan Mehmed V and Djemal Pasha both opposing it. And prior to the seizing of Reşadiye and Sultan Osman I, the Ottoman navy had been rather pro-British.
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@Dave_Sisson The new Emden will be a 1,900 ton corvette. So probably not.
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