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

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

Baron von Spiegel and other officers of the landing corps of S.M.S. Cormoran with local police soldiers during an action during the prostration of the so-called Ponape uprising in the German colony / Photographer: Scherl

Native soldiers in German protectorate Samoa / Photographer: Scherl

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

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

German soldiers of the imperial navy in the main street in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Documents:20 picture-postcards (1901/1902)picture of Heinrich Prüß in uniform (1901)letter to his brother (1901)estate documents (1904-1911)12 photocopies of the estate documents (1904-1911)manuscript draft due to estate regulation (1905)literature:essay in the yearbook "Geschichte und Gegenwart" of the Verein für Kloster- und Heimatgeschichte Harsefeld e.V.. (Society for Monastery and Local History Harsefeld), Vol. 17 (2004) by Paul Reisener: Heinrich Prüß from Harsefeld fought and died in German-Southwest-Africa

German soldiers (from left to right: Senior Physician Dr. Wolf, Lieutenant Baldamus, Lieutenant von Schappuis) in front of the customs house in Bagamojo with bullet hole in the colony of D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl