Under her commander Captain Koenig, the German merchant submarine "Deutschland", largest in the world, ran the British blockade of Germany and British ships off the US coast to reach the neutral United States, arriving in Baltimore Harbor July 10, 1916.Postcard of the Deutschland of Bremen, and the tugboat Thomas F. Timmins of Baltimore.
The German U Boat "Deutschland"Largest in the WorldAnd her commander - Captain KoenigArriving Baltimore Harbor - July 10th, 1916
"Did we really have such a good life in peacetime? Even if it might seem as if we did, we weren't really satisfied. I remember that many of us hoped for war so that things would get better for us. Whenever I remember how we used to worry about getting a job, about pay disputes and the length of the working day, it makes the thought of peace less attractive. But at the moment it seems like paradise, a time when you could buy all the bread, all the sausage, all the clothes we wanted. Not that that was much help to all the poor buggers with no money to buy anything! Perhaps the real crisis will come when we are all lucky enough to be at peace again."
Richard Stumpf, a German sailor on SMS Helgoland. On October 29, 1916, he watched the return of submarine U-53 which had accompanied the missing merchant submarine Bremen on its maiden voyage. Bremen vanished.
The Beauty and the Sorrow: An Intimate History of the First World War by Peter Englund, pp. 311–312, copyright © 2009 by Peter England, publisher: Vintage Books, publication date: 2012
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