A Deterritorialized History: Investigating German Colonialism ...
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59 All of the articles collected within Bechhaus-Gerst and Klein-Arendt’s work identify<br />
such encounters.<br />
60 For example, newspapers such as the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Zeitung were an<br />
obvious tool of the colonial settlers’ lobby. R1001 8 Deutsch-Ostafrika. 8.27 Stationen.<br />
Mflm 79393 /1026. Militärstationen in Deutsch-Ostafrika. Das Kleine Journal, no. 139,<br />
23 May 1893. Flugblätter des Deutschen Kolonial-Bundes, 27 October 1903.<br />
61 Allgemeine Zeitung, 6 November 1886. The statement can be roughly translated as:<br />
“A colonial policy is only patriotic when it is profitable.”<br />
62 R1001 9 Deutsche-Südwestafrika. 9.24 Verwaltungssachen. 9.24.1 Allgemeine<br />
Verwaltung. Mflm 79501 /2033 Verwaltung und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung von<br />
Deutsch-Südwestafrika. Behandlung der einheimischen Bevölkerung in Südwestafrika.<br />
Taglicher Anzicht no. 212, 9 September 1904.<br />
63 R1001 8 Deutsche-Ostafrika. 8.9 Expeditionen, Inspektionen und Reisen. Mflm<br />
79392 /279. Militärische Expeditionen der Schutztruppe. Berliner Tageblatt, 19<br />
September 1891. Responses to these criticisms were equally vehement, Freiherr von<br />
Bülow of the Schutztruppe slammed the unpatriotic and negative view of colonialism<br />
propounded in some liberal newspapers. R1001 8 Deutsche-Ostafrika. 8.9 Expeditionen,<br />
Inspektionen und Reisen. Mflm 79392 /279. Militärische Expeditionen der<br />
Schutztruppe. Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung 12 December 1891.<br />
64 R1001 11 Kamerun und Togo. 11.19 Reichstagssachen. Mflm 80239 /4069h.<br />
Bundesrats- und Reichstagsverhandlungen über Kamerun – Material. Memorandum<br />
from Staatssekretär RKA to <strong>German</strong> Governor (Cameroon) 31 May 1912.<br />
65 This definition of reification is based in Jameson’s description of the “effacement of<br />
the traces of production on the object” from: Jameson, “Marxism and Historicism,” 57.<br />
66 Bechhaus-Gerst and Klein-Arendt. Heyden and Zeller. Friedrichsmeyer, Lennox and<br />
Zantop.<br />
67 The museum contained more than three thousand African cultural artifacts, many of<br />
them robbed from their owners. For example, the looting of King Yu’s capital in 1905<br />
Cameroon was to provide many treasures for the Kolonialmuseum.<br />
68 R 8023 23 Museen und Archiv. Deutsches Kolonialmuseum zu Berlin. Kolonial<br />
Zeitung 3 October 1896.<br />
69 Heyden and Zeller, 142.<br />
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