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	German South-West Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		German South-West Africa (German: Deutsch-Südwestafrika, DSWA) was a colony of Germany from 1884 until 1915, when it was taken over by South Africa and administered as South-West Africa, finally becoming Namibia in 1990.
		German settlers were drawn to the colony by economic possibilities in diamond and copper mining, and especially farming.
		German settlers were transported to concentration camps near Pretoria and later in Pietermaritzburg.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_South-West_Africa (1002 words)

	The African Queen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Colonial rivalry in Central Africa began after the 1871 unification of German states that led to the creation of the German Empire, a rivalry intensified with the ascension of Wilhelm II, as Kaiser of Germany, in 1888.
		In Africa, the German colonies of Togoland, Cameroon, and German Southwest Africa were occupied quite easily due to naval blockades and logistical issues, both of which hindered the chances of German retention.
		German Army assets in German East Africa, under the command of General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, exacted an unexpected defeat upon the British Army at the Battle of Tanga in November 1914 (Farwell).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_African_Queen (2488 words)

	The Great War Society: 90th Anniversary - The Fall of Przemsyl
		The July 1915 conquest of German Southwest Africa was a marked triumph for the British campaign in Africa.
		German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) was a large territory, which was six times the size of England and was Germany's second largest colony.
		German colonial officials were unprepared for war and the German government held to the maxim, the colonies must be defended in the North Sea.[3] The Germans counted on the Boers rising up to aid their efforts and stockpiled weapons in the case of such an uprising.
	www.worldwar1.com /tgws/swafrica.htm (442 words)

	Savage and Soldier Online
		The German forces, with only 588 askaris and 458 police in the south, were powerless to contain it, one-fifth of the colony soon was in the hands of the rebels.
		A successful ambush on a German column crossing the Ruhuji River by the Bena kept the rebellion alive in the southwest, but the Germans were not to be denied for long.
		However, the newly arrived German troops were not conditioned for the climate and soon proved to be ineffectual against the seasoned Herero.
	www.savageandsoldier.com /articles/africa/GermanWars.html (4718 words)

	German East Africa (1885-1919) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		By 1890 German East Africa comprised the modern-day territories of Tanganyika, Burundi and Rwanda.
		Following in the Portuguese and Dutch colonial practice, the Germans treated their overseas possessions an an integral part of one empire and consequently the Imperial German arms and flags were used throughout the Empire.
		This is the flag and shield of Tanga, German East Africa (1914).
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/tz_gea.html (939 words)

	Sub-Saharan Africa Region
		German troops commanded by Captain Curt von Francois attacked the headquaters of the Nama tribe led by Hendrik Witbooi in Hornkranz on April 12, 1893, resulting in the deaths of 78 individuals.
		Colonel Theodor von Leutwein was appointed as colonial governor of German Southwest Africa in 1894.
		German troops and Nama tribesmen clashed near Hartebeestmund on the northern bank of the Orange River on October 24, 1905, resulting in the deaths or wounding of 43 German soldiers.
	faculty.uca.edu /~markm/tpi_narratives_africa.htm (16264 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		There is no doubt that there is to be found among the nations of Africa, apart from Christianity and Mohammedanism, a religion, a belief in a higher, living, and personal principle, implying on man's part the duty of recognizing it by means of some kind of worship.
		Islamism has found in Africa a boundless sphere of conquest, and its uninterrupted spread, from the seventh century down to the present time, among all the races of the continent is one of the most remarkable facts of history.
		Protestantism, therefore, shows considerable activity in Africa, seconded, as it is, by the magnificent generosity of its adherents and of its numerous native assistants.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01181a.htm (9132 words)

	The Story of German South West Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Neither is there the slightest reason to doubt the perpetration in German South West Africa of many hideous individual outrages, floggings, murder, rape and all the concomitants of unbridled passion which have disgraced the records of the White invaders of colonisable South Africa.
		German intervention in the western portion of the colonisable southern part of the Continent, between the Kunene and Orange rivers, known as Ovamboland, Damaraland and Great Namaqualand with an estimated area of 322,450 square miles, began in 1883 and attained its fullest territorial limits in 1890.
		German missionaries were working in Great Namaqualand as far back as the early 'forties of last century, and ever since the British Government settled in Cape Colony the 2,000 Germans of the Foreign Legion, which it had raised for the Crimean War, South Africa has seen a steady trickle of German immigration.
	www.boondocksnet.com /editions/morel/morel06.html (1675 words)

	World War One - Steadfast South Africa
		The backbone of the German command was broken and the remaining forces capitulated in July, 1915.
		The attack was planned as a joint naval and military operation, the German cruiser Koenigs-burg being assigned to move into the harbor and bombard the town simultaneously with the assault by land.
		The climate of German Southwest Africa, after the torrential storms of the seacoast and the terrific heat of the desert have been passed, is one of the most salubrious in the world.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles26/world-war-one-17.shtml (2299 words)

	German language and dialects in the world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The most politically and militarily successful of the migrating Germanic tribes – the Franks, the Langobards, the Allemanni, and the Visigoths – all abandoned their Germanic languages in favor of the popular Latin spoken by the indigenous populations of the Roman territories they overran and subsequently governed.
		Indeed, the so-called “Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation” founded in 800 A.D. by Charlemagne, a French king of Frankish origin, vigorously promoted the use not of German, but of church Latin as a unifying force throughout a Christian Western Europe that was feeling the chronic threat of invasion by Islamic armies.
		German colonial establishments in Africa (German Southwest Africa [now Namibia] and Cameroon), the islands of the Western Pacific, and China (the Shandung Peninsula) were lost by 1919, following the German defeat in World War I. Hitler’s defeat in World War II put paid to a transitory military occupation of North Africa.
	www.alsintl.com /languages/german2.htm (747 words)

	From “Native Policy” to Exterminationism: German Southwest Africa, 1904, in Comparative Perspective
		I explore the reasons for the Germans’ murderous assault on the Ovaherero during the 1904 war and in the concentration camps between 1904 and 1908.
		Although colonial atrocities were not unusual at the time, the German attack on the Ovaherero is rightly described as the first genocide of the 20th century.
		The fact that this was a German crime also points insistently back to the “Sonderweg” thesis, forcing us to ask whether German colonialism was not, after all, exceptional—exceptionally exterminationist, that is, as the British argued after WWI.
	repositories.cdlib.org /uclasoc/trcsa/30 (205 words)

	German language and Germany by ALS International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		German is used as the official language of Germany and of Austria.
		German is also spoken in dialect form throughout Luxembourg and by much of the population of the regions of eastern France formerly known as Alsace and Lorraine.
		Modern German belongs to the group of so-called Germanic languages (including also the Scandinavian, Dutch, Flemish, and English languages) that are descended from a common prehistoric ancestor referred to by linguists as “proto-Germanic”.
	www.alsintl.com /languages/german.htm (1482 words)

	German southwest Africa (1884 - 1919)
		Once German sovereignty was established, administration was handed over to the civilian administration.
		The Germans occupy the British border station Nakab and occupy on September 10th Walvis Bay.
		German influence is also visible in many buildings, especially in Swakopmund, Windhuk and Luederitz.
	www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de /suedwest-english.htm (558 words)

	Former Colonies and other Overseas Territories (Germany)
		German Southwest Africa (Deutsch Sudwestafrika), nowadays Namibia [1915]
		This was the case, for instance, in Angra Pequena (Southwest Africa, now Namibia) on 7 August 1884, in Cameroon on 21 July 1884, in Mioko (New Guinea) on 4 November 1884.
		A lot of German technical stuff on that can be found for instance in this website, for example the this zipfile with several maps and pictures.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de_colon.html (1415 words)

	WHKMLA : World War I in Africa
		The governors of East Africa and of Kamerun declared the colonies neutral at the beginning of the war, referring to the Final Act of the Berlin Conference; this neutrality was not recognized by the Entente powers.
		In East Africa (modern Tanzania), commander PAUL VON LETTOW-VORBECK was able to defend his colony until 1916; then, with enemy forces penetrating into the country, he switched to a guerilla strategy.
		With a small force of ASKARI soldiers (native recruits commanded by German officers) he tied up far superior numbers of enemy soldiers, which could not be deployed in the trenches of France.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/period/wwi/inafrica.html (233 words)

	German South-West Africa - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA [German South-West Africa] see Namibia.
		Dunes, Diamonds, and Dolphins : Formerly known as south west africa, namibia is famous for its moving dunes and giant diamonds, but it also has captivating wildlife.
		Short breaks: In search of...`Bavaria by the sea'; Namibia's German colonial influences are still apparent in the city of Swakopmund.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-germanso.html (216 words)

	WHKMLA : History of German South-West Africa, 1884-1918
		In 1884 the German government declared a protectorate, which at the BERLIN CONFERENCE of 1885 was extended to cover the core of what is Namibia today, leaving out the exclave of WALVISBAAI on which Britain produced an older claim.
		The sparsely populated colony attracted German settlers, 3,700 by 1903, 13,000 by 1910.
		In 1890, German minister of foreign affairs CAPRIVI acquired (from Britain) a stretch of land along the Angolan-Bechuana border, the Caprivi strip, to give German South West Africa access to the Zambezi river.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/southafrica/germanswa.html (577 words)

	AboutGerman.net - Culture - German Things
		Several "German" terms are related to herbs used in herbal medicine, a popular German practice.
		The term "german measles" comes from the fact that the rash is similar to that of measles, i.e., germane to measles.
		NOTE 1 (German shepherd): The history of the German shepherd breed begins with Max-Emil Friedrich von Stephanitz (1864-1936), a Prussian calvary captain (Rittmeister).
	www.aboutgerman.net /blkultur_AGN01.htm (738 words)

	eBay - german southwest ..., Europe, Stamps items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		German Colonies Aboard, Southwest Africa 1897 Scott 1
		German Colonies Aboard, Southwest Africa 1897 Scott 4
		German Colonies Aboard, Southwest Africa 1899 Scott 12
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=german+southwest+... (282 words)

	Colonial Flags 1914 (Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Unfortunately for the tens of thousands of British, Indian, South African and other Empire troops eventually bogged down in East Africa, the German forces commander, Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, was a brilliant guerrilla leader.
		The German Imperial flag is still very much in use by the German population.
		In the case of South West Africa, this was to be a blue shield bearing a silver ox's head and diamond.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de_col14.html (673 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Damaraland
		The acquisition of the present German Southwest Africa by Germany was begun in the year 1883.
		As Maherero, the supreme chief of the Herero, had formerly sided with the English against the Germans, he was forced, on 21 October, 1885, to conclude a treaty of protection and amity with Germany, and to acknowledge the German supremacy.
		The Fathers of the Holy Ghost were the first Catholic missionaries who, at the end of the seventies, made the attempt to found a mission among the Herero; owing to the intolerance of the Protestants, however, they were compelled to abandon the work in 1881 (cf.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04610b.htm (943 words)

	Arnold Vosloo: Morenga (1985)
		Gottschalk (Jacques Breuer) and Wenstrup (Edwin Noel) are two German veterinarians who have settled in German Southwest Africa to tend to the needs of cattle ranchers.
		An idealistic young medic signs up for service in the German Southwest Africa of 1911; he's disgusted by the way the colonists treat the natives, and when the war against the Hottentots breaks out, he tries to desert.
		Like so many German movies at the time, the film is unrelievedly didactic: it doesn't show a shred of interest in the characters or situations for their own sake, but uses them only as illustrations of a moral position that's more than clear from the outset.
	www.angelfire.com /biz2/abletree/morenga.htm (285 words)

	World War I Bookstore: Africa
		Military Operations East Africa covers British and Commonwealth operations in German East Africa from August 1914 to September 1916, where more numerous British and* Colonial forces waged a war against the German led native Askari's under General von Lettow-Vorbeck, who remained undefeated at wars end.
		Dobbertin was a commercial photographer in German East Africa prior to World War I. When all German men were mobilized in August 1914 to defend the colony, Dobbertin became, in effect, the only combat photographer on the German side.
		There are chapters on German South-West Africa, the two phases of the German East African Campaign, the South African infantry brigade in Egypt, and the S.A. forces in France.
	www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com /gwbksafrica.html (966 words)

	Imperial Germany, Kaiser Reich, WWI, Wilhelm I and Wilhelm II
		This was the flagship of the German Navy.
		The Völkerschlachtdenkmal, which is a memorial to the heroes of the battle, stands in Leipzig and, without a doubt, is one of the most beautiful war monuments in the world with stone warriors in medieval armor, who stand stoic leaning on their great swords inside and outside of the monument.
		The medal is in the shape of the German Iron Cross with the Prussian Eagle in the center flanked by the bust portraits of the two famous Prussian emperors.
	www.germaniainternational.com /kmedals4.html (2400 words)

	Africa on the Matrix: Namibia
		Namibia's harsh environment made it one of the last areas of Africa to be claimed as a colony during the European rush to divide up and control the continent.
		In the late eighteenth century, the area was claimed by Germany and named "German Southwest Africa." Today, German influence remains strong in the capital of Windhoek and the seaside town of Swakopmund (and other areas as well).
		South Africa tightened its grip on Namibia (known as South-West Africa) throughout the twentieth century and brought its racist policies and pass laws to the country.
	www.on-the-matrix.com /africa/namibia.asp (647 words)

	American Renaissance News: A Painful Reminder of German Colonialism
		The Germans were sent arms and reinforcements by the Emperor in Berlin and lashed back on Aug. 11, 2004, in what came to be known as the decisive battle of Warterberg.
		During the fight, German soldiers are said to have forced the surviving Herero into the Omaheke desert and blocked access to all water sources.
		In January this year, German ambassador Massing regretted the brutal reaction of the German army to the Herero uprising, but refused to react to allegations of genocide.
	www.amren.com /mtnews/archives/2004/08/a_painful_remin.php (1176 words)

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