Member of the Schutztruppe's Askari in the mora position near Garua / Photographer: Scherl

Transport of German troops at the railway station in Windhoek / Photographer: Scherl

The men who had been drafted into the war meet in front of the town hall in Windhoek, Namibia, which was then the colony of German Southwest Africa. De Vaal, the son-in-law General Botha´s speaks to the German population in Windhoek / Photographer: Scherl

Departure from the railway station in Windhoek. The German group goes south / Photographer: Scherl

Rider of the Schutztruppe in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

The railway line Windhuk - Keetmanshoop in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika was haunted in 1914. Here soldiers of the Schutztruppe walk along their tracks / Photographer: Scherl

Provisioning column from Windhoek in German South West Africa / 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

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

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

Improvised field kitchen in South Africa, camp Pietermaritzburg / 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

ambulance transport of the Schutztruppe with the help of camels / 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

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

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

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

Contains among other things: Conflicts Pichts with Prof. Dr. Zeller (AA) and the British planter Evans

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

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

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

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

Bombardment of the bridge in Swakopmund by the English on 14.09.1914 / 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

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

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

A captive English colonel in the colony German South West Africa in 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

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

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

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

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

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

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