A Deterritorialized History: Investigating German Colonialism ...
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Annihilation of the Herero in <strong>German</strong> South West Africa, 1904.” in The Massacre in<br />
<strong>History</strong> eds. Mark Levene and Penny Roberts, (New York: Berghahn, 1999), 213.<br />
Jeremy Silvester, and Jan-Bart Gewald. Words Cannot Be Found: <strong>German</strong> Colonial Rule<br />
in Namibia: An Annotated Reprint of the 1918 Blue Book (Leiden: Brill, 2003), xxi.<br />
R1001 Einziehung von Vermögen von Eingeborenen in Deutsche Südwestafrika. 79419<br />
/1220 Ansiedelungs und Auswanderungswesen 5b 21212, Der Tag. 6 January 1906.<br />
Also in Kolnische Volkszeitung 4 January 1906 and Der Tag 14 January 1906.)<br />
58 Deutsche Kolonialblatt, no. 14, 1894, 324.<br />
59 Schutztruppe officers Hans Paasche and Berthold von Deimling converted to pacifism<br />
afterwards to fight the excesses of the colonial system. Heyden and Zeller, 40-41.<br />
60 Deutsche Kolonial Zeitung 43, 27 October 1904.<br />
61 R1001 11 Kamerun und Togo. 11.19 Reichstagssachen. Mflm 80239 /4069k.<br />
Ermittlungen aus Anlaß von Angriffen gegen die Behörden von Kamerun im Reichstag.<br />
Epstein, 641. While former Governor Schnee admitted the excesses of some colonial<br />
administrators, he states that they were only the barbaric actions of individuals, not the<br />
whole system in: Schnee, 105.<br />
62 The trials of the officials resulted in such punishments as minimized pensions and<br />
similar blandishments. Agitation was further stoked by the minimal punishment meted<br />
out to Peters after his dismissal.<br />
63 R1001 11 Kamerun und Togo. 11.10 Gesellschaft und Vereine. Batanga-Firmen.<br />
Mflm 79619 /3416. Hamburger Nachrichten #50. 21 January 1900.<br />
64 John S. Galbraith, “The ‘Turbulent Frontier’ as a Factor in British Expansionism.”<br />
Comparative Studies in Society and <strong>History</strong> 2, no. 2 (January 1960): 150-168.<br />
142<br />
65 Iliffe, Tanganyika under <strong>German</strong> Rule, 27-48. However, this is not to state that the<br />
settlers were always in agreement with the government policy, for example, during the<br />
Herero war a settlers’ journal was disgusted by the “bestiality by which <strong>German</strong> soldiers<br />
act in the attack.” RKA R1001 Expeditionen und Reisende 4b, Militärisches Einschreiten<br />
des Schutztruppekampfe gegen Hendrik Witbooi. Mflm 79449 /1483. Sudafrikanische<br />
Zeitung 24 Mai 1893.<br />
66 The Anleitung zum Felddienst in Deutsch-Ostafrika (Dar es Salaam, 1911) is quoted<br />
in: Iliffe, Tanganyika under <strong>German</strong> Rule, 28-29.<br />
67 R 1001 3 Etats- und Rechnungswesen. 3.1 Allgemeines. Kolonialetats. Mflm 83270<br />
/9550. RKA directive to Imperial Governor (DSWA), 19 July 1912. Fears of<br />
miscegenation prompted the deportation to Africa of an African lecturer in Swahili at the<br />
Seminar for Oriental Languages who married a <strong>German</strong> woman in 1905.