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German Colonial Empire
By: guest5 Date: February 12, 2021, 10:13 pm
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[quote]The German colonial empire (German: Deutsches
Kolonialreich) constituted the overseas colonies, dependencies
and territories of Imperial Germany. Unified in the early 1870s,
the chancellor of this time period was Otto von Bismarck.
Short-lived attempts of colonization by individual German states
had occurred in preceding centuries, but crucial colonial
efforts only began in 1884 with the Scramble for Africa.
Claiming much of the left-over uncolonized areas of Africa,
Germany built the third-largest colonial empire at the time,
after the British and French.[2] The German Colonial Empire
encompassed parts of several African countries, including parts
of present-day Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Namibia, Cameroon,
Gabon, Congo, Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria, Togo,
Ghana, New Guinea, and numerous other West Pacific / Micronesian
islands.
Germany lost control of its colonial empire when the First World
War began in 1914, in which all of its colonies were invaded by
the Allies during the first weeks of the war. However, a few
colonial military units held out in remote areas for a while
longer: German South West Africa surrendered in 1915, Kamerun in
1916 and German East Africa in 1918.
Germany's colonial empire was officially confiscated with the
Treaty of Versailles after Germany's defeat in the war and each
colony became a League of Nations mandate under the supervision
(but not ownership) of one of the victorious powers. The German
colonial empire ceased to exist in 1919.[3] Plans to regain
their lost colonial possessions persisted through the Second
World War, with many at the time suspecting that this was a goal
of the Third Reich all along.[4] Really???
Due to the short period in which Germany had colonies, in
contrast to Great Britain, France and other European countries,
the colonial experience is almost respected by German narratives
today[citation needed], despite its ongoing socioeconomic legacy
(including the presence of close to a million Afro-Germans) and
the historical impact of events such as the Herero and Namaqua
genocide perpetrated by the German Colonial Empire, the first
genocide of the 20th century.[5] [/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_colonial_empire
[img width=1280
height=561]
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[quote]The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the
worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world:
materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover,
since what these people possessed on their own was superior to
anything we could give them, they have remained themselves...
The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have
everywhere aroused hatred. — Adolf Hitler, The Political
Testament Of Adolf Hitler: Recorded By Martin Bormann[/quote]
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An East African Askari soldier holding Germany's colonial flag
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Re: German Colonial Empire
By: guest55 Date: July 31, 2021, 5:13 pm
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[s]Wilhelm II[/s]....
Not that Ottoman Jihad is a bad thing but Wilhelm II did a lot
of damage with his idiocy during his reign that is for sure.
How the German Empire Provoked Ottoman Jihad in WWI
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LCpbgVx9kY
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Re: Hitler: The Face of Anti-Tribalism
By: guest30 Date: August 2, 2022, 8:01 pm
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The Chinese people, like in my homeland, even cannot be trusted,
even during reign of Hitler's government. They more to did
something which only benefit themselves and his fellows. See
this historical information :
Source :
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Chinese_people_in_Nazi_Germany
[quote]Initial persecutions
Initially the everyday life of Chinese people in Germany was
unaffected by the Nazi government and Adolf Hitler praised
Chinese culture and considered Chinese people to be “Honorary
Aryans”.[2]
Later, Chinese people in Germany, some of whom adhered to a
right-wing ideology, were targeted for persecution or ethnic
cleansing by the Nazi government. Although most of them were not
politically active, the government conducted surveillance on
them. Under these circumstances, life became increasingly
difficult for Chinese civilians in Germany. Beginning in 1936,
Gestapo, local police and custom officers enforced unethical
regulations in Hamburg's Chinatown. On January 25, 1938, the
Center for Chinese (Zentralstelle für Chinese) was founded under
the control of Reinhard Heydrich, which was dedicated to
controlling the size of the Chinese population.[3]
Most members of Germany's Chinese population chose to return to
mainland China, but some of them chose to fight in the Spanish
Civil War. According to a report composed by the Overseas
Community Affairs Council, the Chinese population in Germany was
reduced to 1938 before the beginning of the Second World War.[1]
During the war
After the Chinese government declared war on Nazi Germany
following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the Gestapo
launched mass arrests of Chinese Germans and Chinese nationals
across Germany,[4] concentrating them in the
Arbeitserziehungslager Langer Morgen ("Langer Morgen Labor
Camp") in Wilhelmsburg, Hamburg, and used them as slave
laborers; many were tortured, bullied, assaulted, or worked to
death by the Gestapo.[5][/quote]
[img width=1280
height=871]
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Sources of photo :
HTML https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Gedenktafel-chinesenviertel-schmuckstra%C3%9Fe.jpg
The transcript from the written contents from the billboard :
[quote]In the early 1920s Chinese sailors took up abode in St.
Pauli's Schmuckstraße and the adjacent streets. They opened
restaurants, shops and laundries that were attached to the
maritime world. The locals labelled it the "Chinese quarter",
although only a few hundred Chinese people lived here.
When the Nazis took over in 1933, the Chinese residents of St.
Pauli were at first not directly affected. However, when the
foreign exchange regulations were toughened in 1936 and
following the declaration of war by the Chinese Republic on 9
December 1941, the Chinese population was increasingly
persecuted. On 13 May 1944, the Gestapo, under the direction of
Erich Hanisch, arrested 129 Chinese nationals as part of the
"Chinese Action". They were imprisoned and physically abused for
months in the Gestapo prison in Fuhlsbuttel and later in the
"Work Education Camp Wilhelmsburg". At least 17 Chinese citizens
were killed as direct result of the torture methods employed by
the Gestapo and the exhaustive forced labour in Wilhelmsburg.
The National Socialist were thus able to erase the "Chinese
quarter" from the map.
In front of the building in Schmuckstraße 9, a so-called,
"Stolperstein" (stumbling stone) commemorates Woo Lie Kien, the
proprietor of a restaurant in the building who died in November
1944 due to the injuries he sustained at the hands of the
Gestapo.
St. Pauli-Archiv e. V.
www.st-pauli-archiv.de[/quote]
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Re: German Colonial Empire
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 2, 2022, 8:50 pm
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Sinophobia in National Socialist Germany should be interpreted
as a carryover from the German colonial era, specifically the
attitudes of Wilhelm II (whom Hitler hated), an open Turanist:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hun_speech
[quote]The Hun speech was delivered by German emperor Wilhelm II
on 27 July 1900 in Bremerhaven, on the occasion of the farewell
of parts of the German East Asian Expeditionary Corps
(Ostasiatisches Expeditionskorps). The expeditionary corps were
sent to Imperial China to quell the Boxer Rebellion.
...
Just as a thousand years ago the Huns under their king Etzel
made a name for themselves, one that even today makes them seem
mighty in history and legend, so may the name Germany be
affirmed by you in such a way in China that no Chinese will ever
again dare to look cross-eyed at a German![/quote]
More about Wilhelm II:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_II,_German_Emperor
[quote]Wilhelm invented and spread fears of a yellow peril
trying to interest other European rulers in the perils they
faced by invading China; few other leaders paid
attention.[40][clarification needed] Wilhelm used the Japanese
victory in the Russo-Japanese War to try to incite fear in the
west of the yellow peril that they faced by a resurgent Japan,
which Wilhelm claimed would ally with China to overrun the west.
Under Wilhelm, Germany invested in strengthening its colonies in
Africa and the Pacific, but few became profitable and all were
lost during the First World War. In South West Africa (now
Namibia), a native revolt against German rule led to the Herero
and Namaqua genocide[/quote]
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HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/south-west-africa/msg4983/#msg4983<br
/>)
[quote]Wilhelm was also appalled at the Kristallnacht of 9–10
November 1938, saying "I have just made my views clear to Auwi
[August Wilhelm, Wilhelm's fourth son] in the presence of his
brothers. He had the nerve to say that he agreed with the Jewish
pogroms and understood why they had come about. When I told him
that any decent man would describe these actions as
gangsterisms, he appeared totally indifferent. He is completely
lost to our family".[93] Wilhelm also stated, "For the first
time, I am ashamed to be a German."[94][/quote]
(
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/kristallnacht-tribute/<br
/>)
It makes no sense to attribute Sinophobia in Germany to Hitler,
given his views on Chinese not only early on, as you yourself
posted:
[quote]Adolf Hitler praised Chinese culture and considered
Chinese people to be “Honorary Aryans”.[2][/quote]
but also re-emphasized at the end of his career:
HTML https://archive.org/stream/PoliticalTestamentOfAdolfHitler/PTAH_djvu.txt
[quote] I have never regarded the Chinese or the Japanese as
being inferior to ourselves. They belong to ancient
civilizations, and I admit freely that their past history is
superior to our own
...
I am sure that the Japanese, the Chinese and the peoples of
Islam will always be closer to us than, for example,
France[/quote]
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Re: German Colonial Empire
By: guest30 Date: August 2, 2022, 9:22 pm
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@90sRetroFan
[quote]Sinophobia in National Socialist Germany should be
interpreted as a carryover from the German colonial era,
specifically the attitudes of Wilhelm II (whom Hitler
hated)...[/quote]
And we cannot abandon the bad foreign policies of China today
which resulting an attitude of Chinese foreigners which emulate
what the "whites" did during colonialism. From my post on the
"Chinese Question" recently. I'm sure it's result of Chinese
people poisoned with Cultural Marxism and Westernization.
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Re: German Colonial Empire
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 14, 2022, 7:47 pm
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Our enemies' perspective (the article is behind a paywall, but
the title alone tells us what we need to know):
HTML https://counter-currents.com/2022/08/the-german-colonial-empire-a-miracle-of-progress/
[quote]In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics
Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West[/quote]
It is an excellent development that rightists are now
(accurately) classifying National Socialism with "Enemies of the
West".
See also:
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/what-is-denazification/
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/our-enemies-admit-national-socialism-is-incompatible-with-the-confederacy/
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/white-supremacism-defeated-hitler/
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/mainstream-admits-churchill-was-defending-western-civilization/
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/anti-zionist-harvest-au-edition/
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/blm-sides-with-third-reich/
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/when-history-is-written-by-leftists-contd/
HTML http://aryanism.net/blog/aryan-sanctuary/when-history-is-written-by-leftists/
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Re: German Colonial Empire
By: germany Date: November 2, 2023, 4:21 am
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HTML https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/1/german-president-apologises-for-colonial-crimes-in-tanzania
Germany’s president apologises for killings in Tanzania under
colonial rule
[quote]
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologised for
colonial-era killings in Tanzania during Germany’s rule and
vowed to raise awareness of the atrocities in his country, in a
step towards “communal healing” of the bloody past.
“I would like to ask for forgiveness for what Germans did to
your ancestors here,” Steinmeier said during a visit to the Maji
Maji Museum in the southern Tanzanian city of Songea. “I want to
assure you that we Germans will search with you for answers to
the unanswered questions that give you no peace.”
Tanzania suffered under German colonial rule for decades before
and after the start of the 20th century, and saw one of the
region’s deadliest uprisings from 1905 to 1907.
During the revolt — known as the Maji Maji Rebellion — between
200,000 and 300,000 Indigenous people were murdered, as German
troops systematically wiped out villages and fields, experts
say.
In 2017, Tanzania’s then-government said it was mulling legal
action to seek compensation from Germany for the people who were
starved, tortured, and killed by its forces.
Steinmeier said Germany would also work to find and return the
skull of an executed colonial era leader — Chief Songea Mbano —
and others whose remains were plundered and brought to Berlin
more than a century ago.
Addressing colonial crimes
Germany’s mass killings of Nigeria’s Indigenous Herero and Nama
people in the early 1900s has been referred to by many
historians as the first genocide of the 20th century.
In 2021, Germany announced an agreement with Namibia that would
formally recognise its colonial-era massacres as genocide and
provide redress to impacted communities, without offering formal
reparations.
Berlin’s Museum of Prehistory and Early History has been
conducting research on around 1,100 skulls that were looted from
historic German East Africa and brought to Germany.
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Re: German Colonial Empire
By: WestCameroon Date: November 11, 2023, 4:18 pm
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Anglophone separatists kill dozens in western Cameroon | DW News
Africa
[quote]Dozens of people in western Cameroon were killed after
gunmen stormed a village in the town of Mamfe, in the
English-speaking region of the country, where rebels seeking to
create a breakaway state and government forces are battling for
control.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wkZrKUDaJI
[quote]German administration
The area had only indirect contact with European powers (mostly
due to slave raids by tribes further south) before the German
annexation of the Cameroons in 1884. The first Europeans to
enter the territory were representatives of the Basel Mission in
1897. The Germans themselves did not move into the territory
until 1899 (though they had signed treaties with Bamileke
leaders as early as 1884). Governor Jesko Von Puttkamer
established the Gesellschaft Nordwest-Kamerun to monopolise
trade in the area, and he established the divisional capital at
Dschang in 1903. The area's cool temperatures drew many German
settlers, and the colonisers established great coffee
plantations, which they forced the natives to work. Larger
plantations were established further south, and many Bamileke
were forced or encouraged to move out of their traditional
territories to work them. The Germans also set up a puppet
over-chief for all the Bamileke, who had never before considered
themselves a single group. Catholic missionaries reached the
grasslands area in 1910. By 1912, most of the Bamileke had
converted to Christianity.
Sultan Njoya welcomed the first German emissary to the Bamum
kingdom in 1902 after hearing of the ruthless treatment given
rebellious tribes further to the northwest. He even lent
military support for the German campaign against the Nso near
Bamenda in 1906. The Bamum soldiers, eager for revenge for an
earlier defeat to the Nso in 1888, committed such atrocities
that the Germans sent them back. Njoya also ordered the building
of a palace at Foumban in 1917, which he modeled after that of
the German governor.
French administration
Bamileke and Bamum territory fell to the French in 1916 after
the Germans' defeat in World War I. The territory became part of
the Baré-Foumban-Nkongsamba administrative area, and the capital
was moved to Foumban. Dschang served as the seat of a French-run
school for the sons of chiefs, which the French used to
indoctrinate as well as instruct. The French maintained German
plantations and labour sources, and new operations sprung up,
such as a palm plantation at Dschang. The new colonial overlords
made improvements to the region's infrastructure, as well,
especially to the road network.
The French continued Germany's policy of propping up sympathetic
chiefs and deposing recalcitrant ones. They sought some sort of
administrative centre amid the Bamileke domains, and in 1926,
Fotso II of the Bandjoun people offered the site of Bafoussam,
neighbouring his domains but not actually part of them. Mambou,
chief of the area, opposed the colonials, but he was defeated,
and the foundations of modern Bafoussam were laid. The Bamum did
not escape the French sphere, either, as sultan Ibrahim Njoya
was deposed in 1931 due to his pro-German views. Njoya died in a
Yaoundé prison two years later.
After World War II, the West was a centre of political pressure
and protest against colonial rule. Other groups came into being
to combat these (usually with France's blessing), including the
Union Bamiléké in 1948. In 1956, France granted self-rule to its
colony, and the West proved one of Cameroon's more politically
influential areas due to groups such as Paysans Independants and
the Assemblée Traditionnale Bamoun. The population boomed
between 1958 and 1965, a period of high urbanisation in
Cameroon.
In 1958, Ahmadou Ahidjo became prime minister of French Cameroon
with a pro-independence platform. The powerful Union des
Populations du Cameroun (UPC) party, including many Bamileke,
considered him a French puppet and opposed him. On 27 June 1959,
several Bamileke areas were struck in what were later labeled
terrorist strikes. Ahidjo declared martial law. His later
attitudes toward the Bamileke likely were strongly influenced by
their opposition to him.[5]
Post-independence
Under Ahidjo, the current West Province was known as the
Administrative Inspectorate of the West. He named Bafoussam the
capital and set the province's current boundaries after union of
British and French Cameroon in 1972.
Ahidjo's battles with the UPC continued past Cameroon's
independence on 1 January 1960. He outlawed the party's
"terrorist" wing on 30 October 1963, leading to more strikes in
Bamileke population centres and subsequent military retribution.
What support Ahidjo did enjoy among the Bamileke largely came
from his pro-business policies. When the president resigned in
1982, his replacement, Paul Biya, sent his representative,
Moussa Yaya, to reassure the West's businessmen that he would
not prove unfriendly to their interests. Yaya mistrusted Biya,
however, and only exacerbated Bamileke reservations. The Bamum,
as well, were reluctant to see Cameroon's presidency change from
a Muslim to a Christian. Much Bamileke and Bamum resentment for
the Biya administration dates to this period.
In 2008, the President of the Republic of Cameroon, Paul Biya,
signed decrees abolishing "Provinces" and replacing them with
"Regions". Hence, all of the country's ten provinces are now
known as Regions. [/quote]
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Region_(Cameroon)
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Re: German Colonial Empire
By: Reparations? Date: October 8, 2025, 5:59 pm
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Reparations do not put an end to colonial bloodlines:
Should Germany be sued for reparations over colonial genocide?
HTML https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zz7LeT9NDBo
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