The official AHF German Colonies quiz thread

[schutzearsch]

August Engelhardt

[Klingsor]

Correct!

Your turn!

[schutzearsch]

Who am I?

I was born in Europe died in Africa, I worked as a planter in Texas and German East Africa and fought against Bushiri at Bagamoyo.

[Klingsor]

Christian Lautherborn?

[schutzearsch]

Right, your turn again.

[Klingsor]

This is probably too easy but I am too lazy at the moment to think about a more complicated question:

What is the name of the lake in German Southwest in which the German Schutztruppe dumped their weapons during ww1?

[Chris Dale]

Otjikoto?

http://s400910952.websitehome.co.uk/ger ... 20lake.htm

Cheers
Chris

[Klingsor]

That's right. Your turn.

[Chris Dale]

Thanks. On the subject of artillery in the colonies, in which German overseas territory could one find artillery like this-



Cheers
Chris

[Klingsor]

Tsingtao

[Chris Dale]

Correct! Your turn....

Cheers
Chris

[Tanzania]

Let me continue with a question.

It is being searched for: The name of a village in the former German Colony Togo, which was located
as the border station on the largest river and, still under the same name belongs nowadays to Ghana.

Cheers Holger

[Tanzania]

Question to abstract? Maybe with a poke?

The locality was near the river Volta, 1894 founded as one of the, later eight administrative districts in the,
at that time German Colony Togo. Both parts of the double name started with the tenth letter of the alphabet. ( - - )

Cheers Holger

[Tanzania]

Antwort am Dienstag 1.8. 2017

Okay, here is the answer: Kete-Kratschi / Kete Kratchi

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Original Source: http://www.traditionsverband.de/magazin/vignet/418.jpg

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Original Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... n_-_14.jpg


The history about the change of borders from German- to British- and French-Togoland:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Togoland


Further Background Information:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kete_Krachi . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kete_Krachi
http://www.ghanaexpeditions.com/regions ... =&rdid=325
http://www.ascleiden.nl/news/impact-and ... tern-ghana
https://books.google.de/books?id=aR_V7C ... hi&f=false

It´s my turn.

[Tanzania]

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Which German Colony touched (from 1911 to 1919) the Equator?
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