The history of operations in East Africa during 1914 and 1915 affords ... flagposts flaunting alternately the German banner and the green flag of the Mohammedans — a striking illustration ...

What about German East Africa? The war in Africa was more than a sideshow. A brilliant guerrilla strategist, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck forged his fanatically loyal Schutztruppe – a small colonial ...

South West Africa (today Namibia), Cameroon and Togo were euphemistically proclaimed to be possessions under “German protection” in 1884. East Africa (today’s Tanzania and parts of Rwanda ...

German East Africa, established in the 1880s and broken up after the end of World War I in 1918, included present-day Burundi, Rwanda, mainland Tanzania and part of Mozambique.