A terrible fire broke out in Honolulu's China town when health officials ordered controlled burns in the area to address the bubonic plague. They grew out of control and destructive.
At the request of German Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the director of the German Imperial Naval Office, Admiral Otto von Diederichs presented contingency plans for a naval blockade and limited armed invasion of the United States.
Frankly, the concept was absurd.
Perhaps emphasizing its absurdity, the size of the German navy would have had to been doubled, according to the report.
Of course, militaries engage in contingency planning, which is often absurd, all the time. Having said that, German concepts of messing around in North and Central America were fairly common and always absurd right up until the US entered the First World War.
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