OT: German West African colony?

victor steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Apr 27 21:51:49 UTC 2012


Didn't Germany control Namibia as well? My impression was that Namibia was
the original "ethnic cleansing"territory--an indirect precursor to later
practices in Europe.

VS-)

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

>
> At 4/27/2012 12:54 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> >Germany had two protectorates, Togoland and Camerun, both of which were
> >split into British and French zones during and after WWI. Neither
> territory
> >has any direct correspondence with current national borders.
>
> Thanks, that sounds right assuming they together were larger than any
> present country.
>
> Joel

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