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Bülow’s Colonial Writings,” in The Imperialist Imagination: <strong>German</strong> <strong>Colonialism</strong> and Its<br />

Legacy eds. Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox and Susanne Zantop, 69-85. Grosse,<br />

146-179.<br />

23 Heyden and Zeller, 51. Especially galling to the organization’s members were<br />

relationships between <strong>German</strong> women and native men. Grosse believes that the mixture<br />

of eugenics and sexual concerns within the colonial expansion were intrinsically linked to<br />

the growth of middle class society. Grosse.<br />

24 Wildenthal, “Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the <strong>German</strong> Colonial Empire,” 268.<br />

Smith, “Talk of Genocide,” 108.<br />

25 Bley. Herero sources list this as a major contributive factor in the revolt.<br />

26 Wildenthal, “’When Men are Weak,’” 70-71. Fatima El-Tayeb, “Verbotene<br />

Begegnungen – unmögliche Existenzen. Afrikanisch-deutsche Beziehungen und Afro-<br />

Deutsche im Spannungsfeld von race und gender,” in Die (koloniale) Begegnung:<br />

AfrikanerInnen in Deutschland 1880-1945, Deutsche in Afrika 1880-1918 eds. Marianne<br />

Bechhaus-Gerst and Reinhard Klein-Arendt (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2003), 85-<br />

94.<br />

27 Albeit during a period of colonial reform, Dernburg stated that “the native was the<br />

most valuable asset of our colonies.” Dernburg is quoted in: Schnee, 92. Gerda<br />

Weinberger, “Die Deutsche Sozialdemokratie und die Kolonialpolitik.” Zeitschrift für<br />

Geschichtswissenschaft 3 (1967): 402-403, 414. Prein, 105-106.<br />

28 Zimmermann, Volume 2, 318. Verordnung betreffend Arbeitsberträge mit Farbigen in<br />

Deutsch-Ostafrika, 27 December 1896. The K-A even appointed Eingeborenen-<br />

Kommissare (native commissars) to safeguard the interests of this labour force.<br />

29 Gründer evidences mortality rates as high as 30 percent in forced labour in: Horst<br />

Gründer, Geschichte der deutschen Kolonien (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schönigh, 1985),<br />

151.<br />

30 Weinberger, 402, 419.<br />

31 Roger Fletcher, Revisionism and Empire, Socialist Imperialism in <strong>German</strong>y 1897-1914<br />

(London: Allen and Unwin, 1984). Schröder.<br />

32 Horst Gründer, Christliche Mission und deutscher Imperialismus: Eine politische<br />

Geschichte ihrer Beziehungen während der deutschen Kolonialzeit (1884-1914) unter<br />

besonderer Berücksichtigung Afrikas und Chinas (Paderborn: Schönigh, 1982), 17-18,<br />

271.<br />

129

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