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

Black auxiliary troops of the Schutztruppe accompany a carrier troop in the German colony East Africa / Photographer: Scherl

Askari soldiers at a shooting range in German East Africa / Photographer: Scherl

Coloured soldiers of a company of the German Schutztruppe, so-called Askari, marching out in the first days of the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Native auxiliary soldiers (so-called Askaris) of the German Schutztruppe in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a and German soldiers deport prisoners of war / Photographer: Scherl

Native auxiliary soldiers (so-called Askaris) of the German Schutztruppe in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a . Scene from the African Anabasis / Photographer: Scherl

Native auxiliary soldiers (so-called Askaris) of the German Schutztruppe in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a march with a trained rifle / Photographer: Scherl

Two warriors from the Ruga Ruga tribe are employed as local auxiliary soldiers (so-called Askaris) of the German Schutztruppe in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a . / Photographer: Scherl

African soldiers of a German colonial army from the D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a colony. Undated recording. / Photographer: Scherl

Group of local soldiers on the march. The Askaris supported the German Schutztruppe under General Lettow-Vorbeck until the end of the war in 1918. / Photographer: Scherl

Two soldiers, who served under the command of Lettow-Vorbecks, on deck chairs in an improvised camp from the first war time / Photographer: Scherl

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

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German troops, colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Reich

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire