SZ Photo - German troops in German East Africa, 1885-1918

01.01.1902 - Prince Adalbert of Prussia visits the English colony Zanzibar on the way back home from German East Africa steps off the front of soldiers. To his right walks the British Regent A....
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01.01.1895 - Colored soldiers of the German protection force, so-called Askari, at a parade in front of the Governor Hermann von Wissmann in the station court in Tanga. Hermann von Wissmann was...
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09.02.1902 - Governor Adolf Graf von Goetzen (5th from left) salutes white and colored soldiers of the 5th Company of the German protection force before departing for a long vacation in Germany...
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01.01.1885 - Members of the German protection force for German East Africa in their uniforms, from left to right: a sergeant in an orderly suit, a paymaster aspirant and an upper artificer in s...
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01.01.1885 - Members of the German protection force for German East Africa in their uniforms, from left to right: a paymaster in service dress, officer in dress uniform or in service dress, a d...
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01.01.1911 - Two cavalry men of the colonial troops in German East-Africa riding zebras along a street. [XPAEXPORTID000007]
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01.01.1914 - Aboriginal auxiliary soldiers, the Askaris, fight alongside German officers at Baumverhau in the Mahenge combat area. Under officer Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German colonial troops...
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14.08.1885 - Drawing of the German warship S.M.S. "Gneisenau" from the squadron of Vice Admiral Karl Paschen. He achieved the recognition of the German sovereignty over the East African coastal...
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29.04.1912 - A soldier wears the new tropical uniform of the German army. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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16.02.1914 - For the 25th anniversary of the East African Protectorate, the soldiers receive zebras as mounts. [XPAEXPORTID000006]
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23.08.1916 - The African sergeant Maleti, who fought on the side of the German colonial rulers in German East Africa. He was awarded the General Honor Decoration (Allgemeines Ehrenzeichen). [XP...
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05.04.1910 - Military and rural population at a station of the Usambara railway in German East Africa. [XPAEXPORTID000007]
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