A Deterritorialized History: Investigating German Colonialism ...
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68 Heyden and Zeller, 74.<br />
69 Grosse’s work particularly ignores the influence of settler opinion upon racial<br />
concerns. Grosse.<br />
70 The earlier “negerfreundliche” (pro-native) policy is from: Gründer, 164. Leutwein is<br />
quoted from July 1896 and November 1898 in: Bley, 68-69.<br />
71 Native groups were often bribed to join <strong>German</strong> military expeditions. Zimmermann,<br />
Volume 2, 166. Vertrag zwischen dem Handeshauptmann von Südwestafrika und dem<br />
Kapitän der Bastards, betreffend die Wehrpflicht der Rehobother Bastards.<br />
72 Though this policy was later curtailed over concerns that liquor stunted the labour pool<br />
and weapons facilitated unrest.<br />
73 Eckart. Zimmerer, 176-177, 182.<br />
74 Prein, 102, 107. Hull, 144.<br />
75 R1001 Allgemeine Angelegenheiten. 1.21 Kolonialpolitik. Mflm 6938<br />
Kolonialpolitik des Staatssekretärs Bernhard Dernburg – Veröffentlich und Vorträge<br />
Dernburgs. Specifically Dernburg’s speech on: 8 January 1907. Marcia Wright<br />
identifies the beginning of the reforms or the “Africanization” of local government before<br />
Dernburg’s tenure in: Marcia Wright, “Local Roots of Policy in <strong>German</strong> East Africa,”<br />
Journal of African <strong>History</strong> 9, no. 4 (1968): 622, 628.<br />
76 Grosse connects the reforms to middle class concerns over the extinction of native<br />
races in: Grosse, 113-124. For example, in its yearly reports, the RKA noted the high<br />
numbers of native children in the <strong>German</strong> schools and the training of formerly nomadic<br />
peoples in sedentary and European commercial trades. R 1001 1 Allgemeine<br />
Angelegenheiten. 1.8 Jahresberichten und Denkschriften. Mflm 83270 /9548.<br />
Entwicklung der deutschen Schutzgebiete in Afrika und der Südsee – Denkschrift über<br />
das Berichtsjahr 1 April 1904 – 31 March 1905.<br />
143<br />
77 From the beginning, African tribal leaders were always encouraged to “place<br />
themselves under the protection of the <strong>German</strong> Kaiser.” R 1001 15 Sammlung Georg<br />
Thiemann-Groeg. Deutsch-Südwestafrika – Abschriften von Dokumenten aus den Jahren<br />
1885-1893. Mflm. 80680 /9327. Bd. 1.<br />
78 R101 Reichstag des Deutschen Reiches. Abteilung I Reichsgesetzgebung und-<br />
Verwaltung. XV Kolonialangelegenheiten. Gruppe II Einzelne Kolonien. Mflm 30997<br />
/1096. Speech by Erzberger, 6 March 1913. Epstein also evidences the colonial<br />
propagandists reciprocal attack upon Erzberger, especially the Flottenverein’s pamphlet<br />
Lies of Mr. Erzberger in: Epstein, 661.