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Cuxhaven

Postcard map of the German beach resorts on the North Sea with ferry routes connecting Hamburg and Cuxhaven on the mainland with the island of Helgoland and, from there, Sylt and Amrum to the north, and Borkum, Juist, and Norderney to the south. The map also shows the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal connecting Kiel, a home to Germany's Baltic Fleet, with the estuary of the Elbe River on the North Sea.
Title: Uebersichtskarte der deutschen Nordseebäder (Overview map of the German North Sea Baths)
[Printed]
Gruss aus (Greetings from)
[Handwritten] Amrum 29 August 1900
Ludw. Hochheimer, Meinz, No. 875
Reverse:
Deutsche Reichspost Postkarte

Postcard map of the German beach resorts on the North Sea with ferry routes connecting Hamburg and Cuxhaven with the island of Helgoland and, from there, Sylt and Amrum to the north, and Borkum, Juist, and Norderney to the south. The map also shows the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal connecting Kiel, a home to Germany's Baltic Fleet, with the estuary of the Elbe River on the North Sea.
Title: Uebersichtskarte der deutschen Nordseebäder (Overview map of the German North Sea Baths)
Gruss aus (Greetings from)
Amrum 29 August 1900

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Title:

Uebersichtskarte der deutschen Nordseebäder (Overview map of the German North Sea Baths)

Gruss aus (Greetings from)

Amrum 29 August 1900

Ludw. Hochheimer, Meinz, No. 875

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Cuxhaven, situated on the North Sea, at the mouth of the Elbe River leading to Hamburg, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal leading to Kiel and the Baltic Sea.

To forestall an attack on Britain, the British had struck the Zeppelin sheds at Cuxhaven on December 25, 1914, causing little damage.

At the end of October 1918, with Germany clearly losing the war, German admirals and other naval officers planned a suicidal attack by the High Seas Fleet on the Royal Navy, an illegal mutiny by the naval officer corps. Sailors and coal stokers refused to go ahead with the mission. Many were arrested and transported from Cuxhaven to Kiel. The sailors' mutiny spread.

Delegates of the Third Squadron presented their demands to Secretary of the Navy Ritter von Mann on November 7. The sailors demanded rights of assembly and free speech, access to press publications, equal rations with officers, the reduction of the power of officers to punish them, fines rather than imprisonment for some infractions, representation in the Admiralty, and the freedom not to salute officers when off duty. By November 7 and 8, rebellious sailors, some of them Bolsheviks, controlled Cuxhaven, Lübeck, Hanover, and Hamburg.

Cuxhaven is a city in Germany.