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NOTHING affected the German national esteem so deeply as the loss of the German colonies, based as this loss was upon charges of brutality and maladministration on the part of those who were ...

‘THE history of our Colonies in the world war has shown that the German Colonial Empire was no proper “empire” at all, but just a number of possessions without geographical and political connection or ...

Equal rights for Africans in Germany and the colonies — that's what 18 Africans demanded 100 years ago. A plaque in Berlin commemorates the long-forgotten Dibobe Petition. What Martin Dibobe and a ...

In the early 20th century, artists like Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein searched for "primitive authenticity" in the German colonies. Here's what they found. When the painter Max Pechstein boarded the ...

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A Washington dispatch represents "a well-informed Entente diplomat " as saying that Germany's overpopulation "makes it necessary for her "to retain her colonies in Africa and “ possibly some sphere of ...