The first German airplane and the first German car in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

A Schutztruppe aircraft is brought to a tarmac / Photographer: Scherl

Call by the commander-in-chief of the South African Union troops, General Louis Botha, announces that in German Southwest Africa the means of payment will become invalid. / Photographer: Scherl

Announcement of the prohibition to leave the residence of the civilian population / Photographer: Scherl

Announcement by Governor Seitz to the Boers in the colony of German South-West Africa in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Artillery department of the Schutztruppe with ox team / Photographer: Scherl

Theatre of war in Cameroon: For lack of barbed wire, German soldiers made hindquarters from tree trunks. / Photographer: Scherl

Funeral of the fallen German soldiers at the cemetery of Swakopmund in March 1916 / Photographer: Scherl

Camel rider patrol of the Schutztruppe at the rest / Photographer: Scherl

Captured English march through the streets of Windhoek / Photographer: Scherl

Soldier of the cavalry on a horse in the steppe in German-Southwest-Africa in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Public appeal to war volunteers in German Southwest Africa in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Newspaper clipping of the Swakopmunder Zeitung: Message that Germany has declared war on England. / Photographer: Scherl

Emergency money as a substitute for missing legal tender in the colony of German South-West Africa during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Emergency money as replacement for missing legal tender in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

A captive English colonel in the colony German South West Africa in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Transport of the English captured in the battle at Sandfontein / Photographer: Scherl

Announcement by Lieutenant von Heyderbreck about an extended invasion of German South-West Africa / Photographer: Scherl

The house in Swakopmund was bombed by the English steamer 'Armadale Castle' in September 1914. That's why the radio tower had to be moved. / Photographer: Scherl

Bombardment of the bridge in Swakopmund by the English on 14.09.1914 / Photographer: Scherl

Landing of the pilot Trück, who was the first to land in the steppe of German Southwest Africa in the First World War. / Photographer: Scherl

Soldiers of the Schutztruppe in Deutsch-Südwestafrika on their camels / Photographer: Scherl

Section of the Mora position in northern Cameroon: Sergeant Weissenberger on a captured English machine gun while firing at the opposite English position / Photographer: Scherl

Column of German soldiers on horses and in horse carts. Pre-war attempts by the captain of the Schutztruppe in Cameroon, Kurt Strümpell. / Photographer: Scherl

Colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika in the First World War: A German prison camp in Aus. / Photographer: Scherl

Bedingungen der Übergabe der Schutztruppe des deutsch-südwestafrikanisdchen Schutzgebietes, geschlossen am 9. Juli 1915. / Fotograf: Scherl

At Christmas 1914 the English landed in Swakopmund, in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika / Photographer: Scherl

Soldiers of the Schutztruppe load the horses in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Embarkation of loads for an officer patrol at Spekegolf, a bay at Lake Victoria / Photographer: Scherl

Map of the movements of the German Schutztruppe and the South African armed forces in German Southwest Africa during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

ambulance transport of the Schutztruppe with the help of camels / photographer: Scherl

Colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika in the First World War: On 14.09.1914 a crane was bombed on the bridge in Swakopmund. / Photographer: Scherl

Improvised field kitchen in South Africa, camp Pietermaritzburg / Photographer: Scherl

Group of Berlin prisoners of war in a camp near Pretoria / Photographer: Scherl

The German pilot Scheele bombed a fine army in the Namib Desert / Photographer: Scherl

Colony of German South-West Africa in the First World War: Bombs dropped by airplane burst in the English camp near Garub / Photographer: Scherl

Protective troops resting in the dry savannah / Photographer: Scherl

Gun of the protection force in fire position at the railway line Windhoek - Keetmanshoop / Photographer: Scherl

On the way through a village the mounted Schutztruppe moves into the field in German Southwest Africa / Photographer: Scherl

Provisioning column from Windhoek in German South West Africa / Photographer: Scherl