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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.