How Japan Killed Germany’s East-Asian Empire

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"True Stories of the Great War: Volume 2" edited by Francis Trevelyan Miller, &

"The Great World War: A History, Volume 1" edited by Frank A. Mumby

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"Battle Sketches" and "The Japan Daily Mail" can both be found as free PDFs at

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~~Timestamps~~

Intro 00:00

Germany's Eastern Aspirations 01:20

Sponsored Section 06:56

The Siege of Tsingtao 10:24

Taking Prinz Heinrich Hill 16:38

The Emperor's Guns 19:24

Rising Sun, Union Jack 25:52

Conclusion 31:35

The Far Eastern theatre of the First World War is an often neglected one. And, to be fair, it wasn’t anywhere near so important to the war’s progression as what was going on in Europe or the Middle East. But for two nations in particular, it represented a dramatic shift in power, the likes of which few in the West had ever imagined.

It crushed forever Germany’s hopes of establishing a global naval empire, the likes of which was hoped to rival even the British Royal Navy. And it provided yet further growth to the ascendant imperial power of Japan, which, as a non European power, delivered Germany one of its earliest and most thorough defeats during the Great War.

The Siege of Tsingtao was a small battle of immense importance, and in this video, we’re going to talk about why that was, and of course, how the siege itself actually took place.