Askaris (soldiers from Tanzania) of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika (Tanzania) during the exercise with the heliograph / Photographer: Scherl

Vor allem Unterlagen zu Kolonialwarenläden, einzelne Auswandererakten/-briefe und Fotos von Soldaten um 1915 insbesondere vor einem Denkmal für Gefallene.

Soldiers during the issue of orders during a manoeuvre of the German Schutztruppe in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Blacks from the Ruge-Ruga tribe who were recruited as soldiers in the German colony of East Africa. / Photographer: Scherl

Native soldiers in German protectorate Samoa / 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

Two cavalrymen of the Schutztruppe von Deutsch-Ostafrika ride along a road on zebras / Photographer: Scherl

Members of the Ruga Ruga tribe who were hired as auxiliary soldiers of the Schutztruppe receive shooting training. / Photographer: Scherl