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Re: Recommended books on German Colonies & Overseas Expediti

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Post by Chris Dale » 07 Jan 2013, 19:00

Thank you for the recommendations Bernd!

That last one with the photos sounds especially interesting...

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Re: Recommended books on German Colonies & Overseas Expediti

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Post by Matteus » 21 Dec 2014, 20:31

Tanja Bührer: Die Kaiserliche Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika.

Michael Pesek: Das Ende eines Kolonialreiches. Ostafrika im Ersten Weltkrieg.

Susanne Kuß: Deutsches Militär auf kolonialen Kriegsschauplätzen. Eskalation von Gewalt zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts.


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Re: Recommended books on German Colonies & Overseas Expediti

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Post by Regenzeit » 21 Jan 2015, 08:57

Glanz & Gloria Verlag in Windhoek released new books recently, covering colonial history in German South West Africa.
1.) "Meine Kriegserlebnisse in Deutsch-Südwestafrika" the experiences of a German officer during the Herero-uprising, Waterberg-Battle, securing the eastern border and later his engagement during the Nama-uprising.
2.) Also published was the 3rd volume of "Der 1. Weltkrieg in Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1914/15" this book is covering: a.) landing of the union-troops in Lüderitzbay; b.) Troops movements in the south of GSWA; c.) The battle at Kakamas. Never before was the history of the Great-War in GSWA written in so much detail, full of unknown facts and plenty of photographs. The books are sold in Germany by Namibiana-Buchdepot in Delmenhorst.

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Post by Chris Dale » 21 Jan 2015, 14:18

:welcome:

That's good news. I can recommend Glanz & Gloria Verlag books. They have lots of first hand information and unseen photos. Thanks for posting here and keep us updated on other publications from Glanz & Gloria Verlag.

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Post by Regenzeit » 27 Jan 2015, 21:32

110 years after the up-rising of the Herero nation in German South-West-Africa, an interesting book was published by Glanz & Gloria Verlag . It covers the story of the very first "Armoured-Train" in German military history. It is in the true sense of the word a "Eisenbahnerbuch" but not only...
When the war broke out and the German settlement Okahandja was besieged by the Herero, a train was sent from the coastal town Swakopmund in aid of their countrymen in Okahandja. It was an extremely difficult task, from Karibib onward, the Herero had the railway-lines sabotaged, which means the train only could move slowly to avoid accidents or even a disaster. En route they had to repair rails while being shot at from Herero in the dense bush...This book was written by Walter Paschasius, who was part of this expedition under the leadership of Oberleutnant von Zülow. This book is available at Militariaverlag Weber [email protected] or at Namibiana Buchdepot, [email protected], both located in Germany.

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Post by Tanzania » 22 Dec 2015, 06:27

The colleges of the GREAT WAR FORUM mentioned this link.

War Office Maps online: British East Africa 1890 -1940
http://www.bl.uk/col...-office-archive

Really very interesting. For sample if you search only for GEA, you get 444 results:
http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libw ... &fn=search
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Post by James A Pratt III » 10 Mar 2016, 00:20

online at haititrust.org "Military Operations Togoland and the Cameroons 1914-1916"
"Military Operations East Africa 1914-1916"

see the great war forums Sub Sahara Africa section for more information on the campaigns in Africa

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Post by Tanzania » 27 Nov 2016, 05:44

Spaces of Negotiation, European Settlement and Settlers in German East Africa, 1900-1914, Philippe Söldenwagner, München 2008
Just ready with reading; Very interesting; here a brief recession:
“German East Africa was a hybrid colony. It was neither completely a settlement nor a trade colony, and its hybrid
character opened up “spaces of negotiation” between German settlers and the colony’s other inhabitants. In Spaces
of Negotiations, Söldenwagner uses an anthropological approach to explore the interactions between German settlers,
other Europeans, and Africans in German East Africa in the decade and a half before the outbreak of World War I.
Using records from the colonial administration, memoirs, travel reports, and newspapers, Söldenwagner describes
the negotiated character of colonial policy as well as the rich interpersonal interactions and negotiations of identity
that took place in the every-day life of the colony. . . ”
Section of the Source: Review of Söldenwagner by Christopher Molnar. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=14775
For me it’s always very interesting to compare the perspectives at that time with the point of views from today: German East Africa as a Settlement Region for Europeans, Taking into Consideration British East Africa and Nyassaland, 1912(Deutsch-Ostafrika als Siedlungsgebiet für Europäer unter Berücksichtigung Britisch-Ostafrikas und Nyassalandes)
https://www.wdl.org/en/item/2556/

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Post by Tanzania » 20 Dec 2016, 21:16

»Das Ende eines Kolonialreiches«, Ostafrika im Ersten Weltkrieg, Michael Pesek, Campus Verlag, 2010
»The End of a Colonial Empire«, East Africa during the First World War, Michael Pesek, Campus publisher, 2010
http://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-ver ... -3730.html
To publish in the present-day Germany a book about the German Colonial time is a sensitive issue and will be therefore a comparatively high risk. The interest in German-speaking area in this topic is extremely low. This applies in particular publications which handle this theme in an objective way. The last author, who try to deal with this topic in an objective and dispassionate way was Dr. Tanja Bührer. A comment to her work: “Some recent revisionist German historians have recently portrayed Lettow’s aggressive and brutal actions as less than heroic and constituting ‘nothing but a military coup’. . .Tanja Bührer, »Die Kaiserliche Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika«, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2011” By the way, Dr. Bührer is Swiss and work at the University Bern. The historian Dr. Michael Pesek, guest professor for African history at the Humboldt University in Berlin wrote a work about the East African campaign 1914-1918. Unusual therefore due to the German point of view and because of his harsh, but very objective manner. Another aspect of unusualness is the time of this publication for, the primarily, due to the language, only German public. In contrast to most of the current German historians, which are also in a commercial dependence in their scientific activity for public commission, Pesek renounces completely on a moral component. for certain for many not critical enough. This is currently a not to be underestimated factor to meet the unspoken, but definitely owed to the requested political correctness in the present Germany. Pesek reviewed also not only German sources, he also studied in British, Zambian, Rhodesian, South African, Belgian and Portuguese sources, which is in the international historian scene not obvious. Another positive factor is the clear and Index structure for the battle fields in time periods, participants or rather actors on German site. Last but not least studied some new, rare sources from unknown German sources the investigations in his publication. Pesek reflected also in his scientific analyses and conclusions the backgrounds and limited to the pure facts. (The origin of Pesek´s favourite word for the Belgian Force public soldiers, “Bulamatari” I could not quite understand in the context of the time period of 1914-1918. The Bantu language group Kikongo and also the subgroup Lingala in the Congo knows this word in the translation in the singular form “The man who break stone / Stone-breaker” and was well known published in connection with the British adventure Henry Morton Stanley who crossed in the 19 century the Congo. But I never heard this for Belgian Askari / s) Image A German review on this work from Christoph Kamissek, M.A.: http://www.geschichte.uni-rostock.de/le ... /kamissek/
Editorially maintained by Prof. Dr. phil. Andreas Eckert: https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/de/afrika ... er/1681578
“ . . . Und als der deutsche Oberbefehlshaber Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck nach überraschenden Erfolgen in den Jahren 1914 und 1915 angesichts der alliierten Offensive zunehmend zu einem Guerillakrieg überging, nahm die deutsche Kolonialherrschaft wieder einen ähnlich sporadischen, unberechenbaren und gewalttätigen Charakter an wie in der unmittelbaren kolonialen Eroberungsphase. . . Bei einer noch konsequenteren Einnahme dieses Blickwinkels hätte eventuell auch die Frage nach der Modernisierungs- und Ordnungswirkung des Krieges anders gestellt oder ganz vermieden werden können. Vorstellungen eines besonders exzentrischen deutschen Kolonialismus legt Peseks Studie hingegen nachhaltig.“ Source: http://www.hsozkult.de/review/id/rezbuecher-14156
Another German review on Pesek´s work from Daniel Karch, M.A.: http://www.clio-online.de/forscherinnen=10978 “ . . .Zwar weist das vorliegende Buch kleinere orthografische Fehler und auch vereinzelte Ungenauigkeiten im Bereich der Zeichensetzung auf, beispielsweise bei den Fußnoten (382, 383). Insgesamt jedoch zeichnet sich diese Arbeit durch eine bestechende definitorische und sprachliche Klarheit sowie stets differenzierte, mitunter selbstreflexive (26) Betrachtungen aus. Das abschließende Kapitel zu "Repräsentationen" und hier vor allem die "afrikanischen Perspektiven auf den Krieg" (364-382) runden die stringent gegliederte Arbeit ab. Insbesondere der Schluss, mit seinen äußerst instruktiven Einlassungen zur Übertragbarkeit der These Karl Schlögels [2] überzeugt. Denn von den sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen her betrachtet scheint der Erste Weltkrieg in Ostafrika durchaus mit dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg im Europa des 17. Jahrhunderts vergleichbar - obschon es eines weiteren Weltkrieges bedurfte, um das koloniale Treiben in Afrika endgültig zu verändern.“ Source: http://www.sehepunkte.de/2011/05/17743.html
A valuable addition to the East African campaign 1914-1918 with a rare, objective and realistic German point of view. It would have been worth to translate and publish this work also in English.
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Further publications from Dr. Michael Pesek: http://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/MichaelPesek/Blogposts
http://bwana-lettow.blogspot.de/?view=classic
»Afrikanische Träger im Ersten Weltkrieg«, Michael Pesek, In: Jahrbuch für Forschungen zur Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung 2014, pdf, 32 pages. http://www.arbeiterbewegung-jahrbuch.de ... -I.-WK.pdf

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Post by Tanzania » 10 Aug 2017, 11:36

I would like to present not only a special book, but an author who has dealt with the German colonial history over all
continents and times. I have two books dealing with the less well-known topic, "The Colonies from Brandenburg and
Prussia in West Africa and the Caribbean". The author, Rainer D.K. Bruchmann researched here not only in unknown
archives and original sources, but also compares these results with a search for the trace and today's local conditions.

Rainer D.K. Bruchmann http://www.buecher-bruchmann.de/gb/2_vita/vita.html



» GROSS FRIEDRICHSBURG IN HOT AFRICA «
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» CAPRIVI – AN AFRICAN FLASHPOINT «
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» DIE DEUTSCHE SÜDSEE – IMPRESSIONEN EINER REISE «
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» GERMAN SUBMARINES IN CARIBBEAN « 1914
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Post by Chris Dale » 19 Aug 2018, 22:39

Thanks for these excellent recomendations Holger.
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Post by Tanzania » 13 Dec 2020, 14:36

MATATA, A memoir of a German Cavalryman in GEA
In German East Africa Before, During and After World War I


The story told here about the life of the, later NCO Alfred Schöffler, when he travelled
privately to GEA in 1912 and was drafted at the beginning of the Great War. This book
is very authentic report from a member of the `Schutztruppe´. “Their Enfield’s had
more of a sharp, cracking sound than ours. The Mausers we used had a deeper sound
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As a former member of a German Ulan-Regiment, it is only natural to be transferred to the
cavalry of the `Schutztruppe´ in GEA. The 8. and 9. Rifle-Companies were the only units with
horses, but were technical only mounted infantry, because they fought primarily dismounted.

The route is described from the border fighting around the Kilimanjaro massif and the mountains
in the western crater highlands to the general retreat in early 1916. The path of retreat leads
him via Kondoa-Irangi, Meia-Meia to the Central-Railway to Dodoma. In summer of 1916 the
journey continues south to Iringa, Ifakara on the Kilombero to Jacobi- and Lupembe missions,
as well as via Mkapira to the Mfrika-position.

At the end of 1916 the lonely area on the Luwegu-River north-east of Songea was reached, where
Schöffler was captured by Lieutenant colonel Murray's BSAP in early 1917 near the Ruhigi Post.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48718765-matata
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Post by Tanzania » 19 Jun 2021, 10:09

Just received. Indispensable work for researching about the `Schutztruppe´ in GEA.

Die Angehörigen der Kaiserlichen Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika zur Zeit des Ersten Weltkriegs .png

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