A viewer invokes SMS Seeadler, the World War I raider remembered as a ship of steel and sail. The later auxiliary cruisers drew on German experience from the earlier war. The older campaign had demonstrated that even a few elusive raiders could tie down British forces around the world. Their effect also appeared in commercial systems such as insurance rates, extending the cost beyond ships actually captured or sunk.
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World War I raiders supply the German precedent
The auxiliary-cruiser campaign of World War II draws on German raider experience from World War I, when ships such as Seeadler tied down British forces and raised commercial costs.