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 ...

Southwest Africa, Cameroon and Togo were in 1884 euphemistically proclaimed possessions under German protection, followed by ...

Lüderitz petitioned the German govern- ment, and the German flag was hoisted in the bay for the first time in 1884, to declare German South West Africa.

No Legal Right. The case centered on a mandate conferred on South Africa by the League of Nations in 1920. South Africa was to oversee the neighboring former German territory of South West Africa ...

Of the 1,772 men remembered by the new Cape Town memorial, says Hay, probably fewer than 100 lost their lives due to their involvement in the relatively hassle-free German South West Africa ...