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Crew of SMS Breslau

Provisions being distributed to the crew of the German light cruiser SMS Breslau, date unknown.

At the beginning of the First World War the Breslau was transferred to the Ottoman Navy and renamed the Midilli. Despite sailing under the Ottoman flag she retained her German crew. During the war the Breslau took part in operations in the Black Sea area until sunk by mines in January 1918 during a raid on the island of Imbros in the Aegean Sea.

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  • Enver Pasha
    The Ottoman Empire

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WW1
ottoman empire
ottoman navy
german navy
Credit

Bundesarchiv
Reference: Bild 134-B2115
Photo: o.Ang.
Further information and copies of this image may be obtained from the Bundesarchiv through its Digital Picture Archives website.

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'Crew of SMS Breslau', URL: https://nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/crew-sms-breslau, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 30-Jul-2014

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Ottmar Fiebel

Posted: 08 Dec 2010

I would like to get a copy of that photo. My father, Otto Fiebel, was one of the survivors of the Breslau and was held in Malta until the war's end. Being a pipe fitter trained in Hamburg, his duties were in the boiler room. He returned to Germany after the war, found it in ruins with most of his friends dead and headed for the United States. He had three sons, Werner, Ottmar (me) and Gunnar. I am the last of his sons surviving at age 75. Otto died in 1961.