In 1940, Germany’s blitzkrieg crushed France in just six weeks, bypassing the Maginot Line through the Ardennes and exposing the outdated tactics and overconfidence of French leadership. The swift ...

Africa, which is suitable for white colonization on a considerable scale, the German colonies in Africa cannot be considered as possible homes for Europeans — if by home is meant permanent ...

Dr. Hjelmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, a leading German financial authority, has a plan for the return to Germany of the ex-German colonies.* He advocates an “international chartered ...

“He was stationed in German East Africa and he was building these train tracks there. I was like, wait a minute. Of course, this happened, but nobody ever talked about it.

THE entry of Germany into the League of Nations was preceded by a well organized propagandist movement for the return of some of her lost colonies and a demand that the price of her adhesion to the ...

I NOTHING affected the German national esteem so deeply as the loss of the German colonies, based as this loss was upon charges of brutality and maladministration on the part of those who were ...

Analysis - Germany was a significant - and often brutal - colonial power in Africa. But this colonial history is not told as often as that of other imperialist nations. A new book called The Long ...

The German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), a Hamburg research institute that advises, among others, the foreign ministry, noted in a 2014 paper on the new German Strategy for Africa ...

But in the mid-1880s, European nations were scrambling for colonies in Africa. Peters, for instance, argued that Belgian interest in Central Africa could harm Germany's own ambitions.

German anthropologists used Germany's colonial conquest in Africa to promulgate racist theory, and create racial hierarchies. While popular at the time, scientific racism became a justification ...

The Woermann Line monopolized transport to German colonies and shipped around 19,000 soldiers and military personnel to South West Africa to crush the Herero and Nama Uprising between 1904 and 1907.