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

A German in a rocking chair in his house. A baboon sits on his shoulder / Photographer: Scherl

German patrol with Kaumi (today: Gaomi) in the German colony Kiautschou during the Boxer Uprising / Photographer: Scherl

Members of the Massai hunted a lion / Photographer: Scherl