The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

In the last days of the First World War, an event occurred which resulted in the rapid collapse of the German monarchy and ultimately hastened the end of the war.

The event was sparked by sailors in the German high seas fleet, who after suffering from months of

low morale, finally decided to stop taking orders.

Learn more about the Kiel Mutiny and how it shaped the outcome of the First World War and the future of Germany

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Okay. To understand the Kiel Muni, we need to know where Germany and the German Navy was entering November 1918.

Most of the historical focus of World War I deals with trench warfare on the Western Front.

However, the war was also fought at sea.

In 1916, the Battle of Jutland was fought in the North Sea between the German and British navies.

It wasn't just the largest naval battle of the war, but also in terms of total tonnage,

the largest naval battle in history.

Technically, the British suffered significantly higher losses than the Germans did, but because they had such an

overwhelmingly larger Navy, the end result was that the German Navy was never able to operate outside of the Baltic Sea.

U-boats still played a major part in Germany's naval strategy,

but its surface fleet was for the most part sidelined.

Not only were they sidelined, but resources were transferred elsewhere in the war effort.

That meant for about two years, the crew on surface ships, like battleships and battle cruisers,

mostly did nothing, and as such they were also given sharply reduced rations.

After the Battle of Jutland, morale amongst German sailors dropped further and further.

Discontent was in the air as early as August of 1917 when the 350-man crew of the battleship Prince

Regent Luitpold staged a protest in the port city of Wilhelm Savin.

In typical German military efficiency, two of the leaders of the protests were shot

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