For John.
John.
The year 1884 was the birth of German colonial politics with the acquisition of South West Africa.
On April 24, Bismarck sent the telegram to the German consulate in Cape Town.
They want to officially declare that Lüderitz and its settlements are under the protection of the German Empire.
The acquisition of this country is the best proof of the entrepreneurial spirit and the foresight of the colonial politics of the time,
because only a few suspected that German South West would become one of the most flourishing colonies.
A year later, Dr. Carl Peters brought East Africa and German sovereignty to the country,
Togo and Cameroon followed.
The Versailles Treaty was destroyed with a blow of 30 years of German culture and construction work in Africa.
The colonies were to be handed over to the People's Union.
However, before the signing of the Versailles Treaty, the powers of the Entente divided the German colonial territories under their control.
England took Germany from Africa, the government of the South African Union, German South West, and the French, Cameroon and Togo.
As the reason for this robbery, one found the colonial guilt lie, the claim that Germany had abused the immigrants
and was unable to colonize.
The evidence for this was tried to bring together the farmers in the famous Blue Book,
but even in 1927, their own Prime Minister General Herzog had to officially withdraw from the Blue Book
and call this study as unreliable and unworthy war laws.
How it really looks, what cultural goods Germany had already created before the war in its colonies,
how German pioneers, despite their greatest obstacles, were able to work in the old German territories again,
and how the immigrants of the country are still attached to their old German friends.
This is what this film is about.
East Africa is limited by the coast and three lakes, Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa.
An area almost twice as large as Germany was closed in a short time.
Hundreds of kilometers of railway line were already built before the German war.
Dar es Salaam.
The capital of the protected area became the German gate of peace.
The contract of Versailles took over the German farmers and merchants.
They had to leave their second homeland without exception.
At their place, shards of Inder and Greek came into the country.
They became the profit-seekers of the injustice inflicted on the Germans.
The buildings that still come from German times were taken over by the English mandate authorities.
Tanga.
The sunk steam market grave is still here from the time of the World War.
At the beginning of the World War, the English troops landed in this bay.
But they were destroyed by the numerically much weaker protection troops, Letto Vorbecks.
From 1925, the Germans were allowed to return to the country.
The German East African line established the connection between them and the motherland.
German East Africa is a rich and economically prosperous land.
In the area around Kilimanjaro, coffee is mainly grown.
The main product, however, is the sea salt.
From it,
clay works and fabrics are made.
The way from the farms to the next train stations often offers great difficulties.
There are no state-owned railways in Africa yet.
So far, mining in German East Africa has been little done.
But for several years, the mining of the Gulf has also been significantly increased in the Lufa fields in the highlands of the Iringa.
The gold that the black worker found and stored in cartridge cases or small sacks is delivered and weighed.
The simple way is to use copper coins as weights.
It is not worth keeping gold for the black person, because he cannot sell it according to strict regulations.
So he prefers to deliver it, especially if he receives an extra reward for larger funds.
After work, wages are spent on the black worker who also receives his pension.
In the south of the country, a new culture is emerging for German East Africa, the cultivation of tea.
The heights to the Jassa lake are very suitable for this.
The Jassa lake is a place where the black workers live.
In the Kili Manjaru, in the Usambara mountains and in Mbeya are German schools.
In a healthy, malaria-free highland, children of the farmers are brought up and trained there.
German teachers teach them.
It is admirable how, despite economic difficulties, the German farmers are not too big a victim
when it comes to the upbringing of their children and thus the preservation of Germanism.
The Jassa lake is a place where the black workers live.
The Zambezi Falls. In a distance of 1.5 kilometers, the river falls 140 meters deep down.
The native people call the falls Töne Wolke.
The Töne Wolke falls to the ground.
There are days when the expedition is only a few hundred meters away.
The wagons have to be lifted out of the mud again and again.
The Töne Wolke falls to the ground.
The number plate of the South African Union fits well into this environment.
The Töne Wolke falls to the ground.
And then the dance begins.
The Töne Wolke falls to the ground.
The Okavango is reached.
In one tree the expedition is carried over the river
and the first village's chief receives the soil from the Wolk Südwest.
The Wolke is carried over the river.
In 1904 the chief Samuel Maharero discovered the great Herero uprising.
In the deepest peace farmers, traders and soldiers were murdered behind the back.
The last war action was the train of the Camel Rider's troop from Erkat to Kalahari.
When the mission was accomplished, Erkat's chief died in the hero's tomb.
In the world war, 6,000 Germans fought 60,000 Purans and Englishmen.
The glorious history of the German protection troops in the southwest was over.
Thousands of German protection troops rest in African soil.
The shadow of their tomb is over the land they fought with their hearts.
And the German riders of their spirit still chase land after land.
After the war, the land was handed over to the People's Union of the South African Union as a mandate.
Later, equality was ensured to the Germans with Purans and Englishmen.
After 1933, the party and Hitler Youth were banned.
Later, even the German federal government as an association of all Germans.
Anyone who comes to the southwest for the first time is amazed by the unending landscape.
But that is the secret of southwest Africa.
A journey through the country was only possible with the ox cart.
Or with the donkey cart.
Today, next to the railway, you have the car.
As you can see, driving a car is not a pleasure.
But the long and tiring journey of the ox cart can be over in a few hours.
One day, Kruger said, put the Germans on a rock.
After a year, he made a garden out of it.
Here in this desert, the German creates a new home.
He can build a house, a house for the German people.
He can colonize.
He understands how to deal with the immigrants who still feel comfortable under his care.
Under the guidance of the Germans, the immigrants are brought up to be skilled craftsmen.
An old saying from them is, the Germans have a hard hand, but a soft heart.
The Germans have a hard hand, but a soft heart.
The Germans have a hard heart, but a soft heart.
The earth's origins in the southwest are not yet discovered.
In Zumeb there is a large mining company.
The copper mine is located in the south-west of the country.
The mine is located in the north-west of the country.
The mines are located in the north-west of the country.
The farm life still has its romantic side in the best African sense.
Since 1926, many new German settlers have come to the country.
Here is one of the German farms, as you approach hundreds of them in the country.
The woman of the farm is your best friend.
She takes care of the children, the household, and she likes to avoid some inconveniences.
The woman of the farm gives the children the first lesson.
The castle lord goes hunting. A lion is spotted.
The hunt is on. He is to be surrounded.
The lion tries to escape.
The German takes the first place in the economic and cultural structure of the country.
He has made his mark on him.
The German takes the first place in the economic and cultural structure of the country.
In the German Work School in Windhoek, the Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
The Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
The Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
The Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
And now they go out on vacation. Many of the children have long journeys ahead of them until they are back on their parents' farm.
The Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
The Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
The Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
The Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
The Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
The Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
The Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
The Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
The Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
The Farmer's Sons learn handcrafted work,
which they can use well in practical life on the farm.
The German youth of South-West Africa is standing at the birthday of the leader.
As children of the land of thorns, they carry the three thorns in their flag.
He calls them always ready to be sacrificed for the land,
which the forefathers worked and fought for,
and to stand up for Germany's honor and future colonial greatness.
A young man stands at the gate of the young city,
the flag is raised high.
We celebrate our time, the time of the young soldiers.
Where does the spirit of the South-West come from?
The dead, the young, the dead, and the dead and the bright flags.
Germany, the land of thorns, we come to you.
Where does the spirit of the South-West come from?
The dead, the young, the dead, and the bright flags.
Germany, the land of thorns, we come to you.