German Colonial Empire

What was it like?
How was Germany as a coloniser and colonial empire

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Brutal.

Brutally and radically cool.

They managed to commit a genocide within one decade in Africa.
Even on a colonial level Germans are autistic.

It really could've been better.

>They managed to commit a genocide within one decade in Africa.
You can take the German out of Germany but you can't take Germany out of the German.

genocidal, literally genocided the hereo people.

probably not as bad as the belgians or the boers but certainly more unpleasant that the british or french

They had great military leaders, managed to survive outnumbered 1:5 vs the Brits in WWI for the whole duration of the war

they never bothered developping their colonies so you can't really call it a colonial "empire"

It was comfy in Kamerun at least

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Tsing Tao or Quingdao is now one of the biggest breweries in china. I'd say they left their mark.

Probably the most interesting of all the German colonies. By 1910, its railway was connected to the Trans-Siberian, so in theory, you could travel from all the way from Berlin to Qingdao via train.

German latrines were loved because their nightsoil was most fertile given their high protein diet.

Better than the bellguns worse than roast beef and frogs.

German Samoa and all of the German Pacific colonies were /comfy/

Germans have always been truly awful at the whole "empire" thing

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The Germans maintained probably the most efficient colonial governments of all the 19th century powers, despite coming late to the game.

Why was German Cameroon a big blob but when France seized it it became much smaller

>What was it like?
Varied considerably from colony to colony, but that's how their colonial system was set up. Some were nice such as Qingdao and Togo. Others were hell on earth like South-West Africa.

>as a coloniser
Read The Devil's Handwriting by George Steinmetz or The German Colonial Experience by a few different writers.

>and colonial empire
Read

>German Colonialism in a Global Age
>Magic Lantern Empire
>Globalization and the Nation in Imperial Germany

I can also recommend books on specific colonies, if you'd like.

>You will never chill out as a colonist in the tropics
>You will never have Polynesians serve you
>You will never engage in the cutest, most comfy theatre of ww1

Mittelafrika > Cape to Cairo >>> West Africa

Boers were QTs
Afrikaaners a shit

Because it was a similar sized blob before they enlarged it using french colonies. Neukamerun was annexed and then reannexed by france

>they nearly bought the philippenes before the US used its retard strength to kick spain in the teeth

>herero
>genocide

He fell for the genocide meme

this desu
they came late to the colonial game but still managed to fuck things up

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agadir_Crisis

>I can also recommend books on specific colonies, if you'd like.
Kamerun pls

>hurr durr muh 30k dead hereros
Meanwhile the British starved gorillions of people in South Asia