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56 H. Pogge von Strandmann and Erich Eyck stand as the greatest supporters of this
thesis: H. Pogge von Strandmann, “Domestic Origins of Germany’s Colonial
Expansion,” 147. And Erich Eyck, Bismarck and the German Empire. The best
refutation of this argument is: Hans-Ulrich Wehler, Bismarck und Imperialismus.
57 Heinrich von Treitschke, Aufsätze: Reden und Brief: 4. Bd. Schriften und Reden zur
Zeitgeschichte (Merrsburg, FW Hendel, 1929), 670. Woodruff D. Smith, “The Ideology
of German Colonialism: 1840-1918” (Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1972), 148.
Gunther Pakendorf, Of Colonizers and Colonized: Hans Grimm and German South West
Africa (Cape Town: University of Cape Town, 1985), 8.
58 R1001 15 Sammlung Georg Thiemann-Groeg. Erwerb von Kolonialgebieten –
Photokopien von Dokumenten aus den Jahren 1883-1899. Mflm 80680 /9325. Treaty
between Germany and King Mosasso of Cameroon, 7 January 1885.
59 Esterhuyse, 67, 88. In other words, Bismarck justified further expansion inland with
the statement that Germany reserved the right to fix additional boundaries into the
interior as settlements and traffic developed.
60 Baumgart, “Die Deutsche Kolonialherrschaft in Afrika,” 469-470.
61 Germany wanted to expand the Togo colony by annexing the contiguous areas of
Gridji, Aganaque, Tschantscholand and Gambaga. R 1001 11 Kamerun und Togo. 11.1
Allgemeine politische Angelegenheiten. 11.1.3 Togo. Mlfm. 4221. Deutsche
Flaggenhissung in Gridji und Abanaque. 1885. As well, Germany acquired further
territory in East Africa in 1900 by annexing a northern province. Germany also had
designs on South African territory. C.D. Penner, “Germany and the Transvaal before
1896,” Journal of Modern History 12 (March 1940): 51-53, 57. After 1890, the K-A was
separated from the AA and made responsible to the Chancellor alone. After 1907, the K-
A department formally transformed into the Imperial Colonial Office or RKA.
62 Alfred Zimmermann, ed. Die Deutsche Kolonial-Gesetzgebung: Sammlung der auf die
deutschen Schutzgebiete bezüglichen Gesetze, Verordnungen, Erlaße und internationalen
Vereinbarungen. 1893 bis 1900. 4 vols. (Berlin, Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn,
1898). Volume 2, 143. Letter from Reichskanzler to AA (K-A), 2 February 1895.
63 Isabel V. Hull, “Military Culture and the Production of ‘Final Solutions’ in the
Colonies: The Example of Wilhelminian Germany,” in The Spectre of Genocide: Mass
Murder in Historical Perspective eds. Robert Gellately and Ben Kiernan, (Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2003), 147-148. Phillipp Prein, “Guns and Top Hats:
African Resistance in German South West Africa, 1907-1915,” The International Journal
of African Historical Studies 20, no. 1 (1994): 102, 107.
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