At the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, three German ships found themselves in the Indian Ocean – far from Allied-controlled waters and uncomfortably close to the enemy’s stomping ground. The crews must have been nervous. This was a time when both sides in the war, the Allies and the Axis, were attacking merchant vessels since they were soft targets. The German ships had to find a safe place and the one they settled on was Goa. Goa was then a colony of neutral Portugal and its residents greeted the German freighters – the Ehrenfels, Braunfels and Drachenfels...