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