A clipping from the August 3, 1914 edition of the Denison (Iowa) Review.
In fact, the French fleet did not capture the Goeben or the Breslau. Rather, the ships escaped to Constantinople and were instrumental in the Ottoman Empire's entry into the First World War. The human story is rather dramatic. Here's an account from History.com. Here's another account from Wikipedia. There is also an amateur YouTube video describing the ships' entire histories, with lots of pictures of the people involved. I can't say how accurate any of these accounts are.
The beloved chocolate shop in my hometown in the United States was founded by a German veteran of the First World War.
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