A soldier trying to ride a Zebra in German East Africa,1910 (1722x1246)
Askaris soldiers in German East Africa.
The first one references to German and British East Africa during the scramble for Africa, and the second refers to the MalΓͺ rebellion in Brazil reddit.com/gallery/rhrdiv
Postcard of Tanga, German East Africa c. 1914
German colonial official Bernhard Dernburg and industrialist Walther Rathenau arriving in Dar es Salaam for an official visit, German East Africa (present day Tanzania) - 1907
Askari soldier holding the colonial flag of the German Empire, German East Africa - c. 1906-17
German France before Italian East Africa
'A soldier of the protection force with a native woman', German East Africa - c. 1900s-1910s
A soldier trying to ride a Zebra in German East Africa,1910 (1722x1246)
Colonialists pay wages to local workers at a trading post, German East Africa - 1911
Uniforms of the German Empire's colonial troops, German East Africa - 1895
A colonial soldier attempting to ride a Zebra in German East Africa (1910)
A soldier trying to ride a Zebra in German East Africa,1910 (1722x1246)
Tutsi high jump demonstration in Rwanda when it was part of German East Africa - c. 1910
German officers riding zebras, German East Africa - 1907
Main street in Lindi, German East Africa (present day Tanzania) - c. 1910s
Askari soldiers holding a Reichskriegsflagge at a military signalling and observation station in the open country, German East Africa - c. 1906
German East Africa WWI Patriotic Kolonialkriegerdank donation postcard. "Askari from German East Africa". F. Bruckmann A. G., MΓΌnchen.
German East Africa 1914 AD to 1914 BC
German East Africa moves to 1914 BC the day ww1 starts
There should be approx 1000 German personnel including 300-400 German officers and s few hundred civilian administrators, businessmen and scientists.Wiki lists 10,000 Europeans in total
Do they change the world?
The steamer "Rubens" brings weapons and ammunition to German troops in East Africa. Photo dated Feb. 1915.
Askari soldiers fighting for Germany, German East Africa - 1914
German officials oversee railway construction in Tanzania, German East Africa - 1910
Germans pulled by native workers while inspecting the Tanganyika railway line, German East Africa - c. 1900s-1910s
A classroom in Dar es Salaam, German East Africa, with portraits of Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife - 1903
A German colonial officer takes a leap on the back of a tame zebra, German East Africa - c. 1910
π₯ Lammergeier (German for "lamb vulture"), found from East Africa to China. Drops bones from the sky in order to crack them. Eats both the marrow AND the bone fragments.
Uniforms of the German Empire's colonial troops, German East Africa - 1895
German East Africa invasion
[WTB] Senegal 150 Francs, German East Africa, Puerto Rico, Congo Free State 10 centimes, British West Indies, Cartwheel 2 Pence
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All easter eggs of German puppets in Africa and Middle East (Mod: BSR) reddit.com/gallery/ozdrrq
German colonial mounted patrol, German East Africa, 1914 [800 Γ 597]
Unteroffizier of 13.FK/Schutztruppe German East Africa, Tanga 1914. reddit.com/gallery/mvv0y8
On this day in 1905, Matumbi tribesmen in colonial German East Africa (modern day Tanzania) destroyed cotton crops and a trading post in the city of Samanga, beginning the Maji Maji Rebellion, which killed 250,000-300,000 people.
TIL that before naming the territory, previously known as German East Africa, "Tanganyika" (now Tanzania) the British government considered various names, including "Smutsland" in honour of General Jan Smuts, "Ebumia," "New Maryland," "Windsorland" after the Royal Family, and "Victoria". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanβ¦
Askaris on the march, German East Africa, 1913. By W. Kuhnert.
German Schutztruppe with KΓΆnigsberg gun, East Africa Campaign.
Three British Askari of the 1/4th (Uganda) King's African Rifles at Njombe, German East Africa, 1914-18.
1/4 Rupie 1891 German East Africa reddit.com/gallery/opoawh
Not too interesting, but figured I would share. Not a coin collector, just interested in history. Iβve picked up all these coins from the places Iβve been. All related to Germany: 1870-1940βs. Coins have come from Tanzania (German East Africa), Namibia (German West Africa), and Germany itself.
Askari soldier holding the colonial flag of the German Empire, German East Africa - c. 1906-17
What motivated the Askari of German East Africa to continue to fight during WWI?
I can understand peacetime motivations, pay and social standing within the Colonial System. And I can understand British, Belgian etc Askari because their colonial systems remained intact.
But East Africa's colonial government fell apart yet the Askari army kept fighting throughout the war and many hardships. I wouldn't think the small white officer corps or the tiny white settler militia would be enough to keep them in the field.
Yet from this image we see them march all over the countryside and with little aid from the rudimentary railway system of the colony. Lest we forget, modern Tanzania is not a small country but smaller than the colony at the time.
So why did they fight? Who were they? What was their social standing during and after the war? Did Britain fold these men into the colonial armed forces after the war or try to make them outcasts?
Flag of the German East Africa Company, 1885.
A mounted contingent of the German colonial volunteer 8th Rifle Company, 1914, around the time of the Battle of Kilimanjaro in East Africa.
Classroom in German East Africa - March 1914 reddit.com/gallery/nk42kg
[1600x1016] Damage to the aft section of the Italian submarine Galileo Ferraris, suffered during the cruise between Massawa (Italian East Africa) and Bordeaux (German-occupied France), 9 May 1941
German colonial volunteer mounted patrol in German East Africa, 1914.
[786 x 587]SMS KΓΆnigsberg in German East Africa, July 1914
Just received this original German East Africa flag in the mail today. Definitely brightened my spirits while under quarantine.
