Surrendered German Cameroon 1916 or not?
In both, German and English Wikipedia, one can read of a surrender of the Germans in Cameroon.
When and where did the de facto surrender or corresponding negotiations take place?
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamerun_i ... _Weltkrieg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamerun_Campaign
Cheers Holger
Surrendered German Cameroon 1916 or not?
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Surrendered German Cameroon 1916 or not?
“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. . . . All History was a
palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary” – G. ORWELL 1984
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Re: Surrendered German Cameroon 1916 or not?
The Schutztruppe never officially surrendered as most remaining German units escaped to the neutral Spanish colony of Rio Muni
A surrender in the broader sense may have taken place with the surrender of Mora Fortress on 18 February 1916, because here the last German troops in Cameroon ceased fighting.
A surrender in the broader sense may have taken place with the surrender of Mora Fortress on 18 February 1916, because here the last German troops in Cameroon ceased fighting.
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Re: Surrendered German Cameroon 1916 or not?
Hi Oliver,
It was also more of a provocative question because many sources wrote of a surrender.
Cheers Holger
It was also more of a provocative question because many sources wrote of a surrender.
Cheers Holger
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Re: Surrendered German Cameroon 1916 or not?
Hi Holger
Since the troops under von Raben in Mora were the last German troops in Cameroon to lay down their arms, the fighting in Cameroon was officially ended by surrender according to the laws of war. This was a mere formality that did not change the fate of the colony in the slightest, but "honourable surrender" probably sounded better even to the German side than "abandonment of the colony by withdrawing from it". In those days, such subtleties were more important than they are today.
That Wiki only dealt with this aspect superficially is not really surprising, is it?
Since the troops under von Raben in Mora were the last German troops in Cameroon to lay down their arms, the fighting in Cameroon was officially ended by surrender according to the laws of war. This was a mere formality that did not change the fate of the colony in the slightest, but "honourable surrender" probably sounded better even to the German side than "abandonment of the colony by withdrawing from it". In those days, such subtleties were more important than they are today.
That Wiki only dealt with this aspect superficially is not really surprising, is it?