Colonial troops with carrier column on the march in Deutsch-Ostafrika in the First World War / 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 in front of an armoured car of the Uganda Railway in British East Africa / 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

German soldiers in the jungle with a machine gun. The photo was taken by a photographer in captivity. / Photographer: Scherl

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

Soldiers of the German Schutztruppe felling trees in the fighting area Mahenge in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a / Photographer: Scherl

Contains also:Wirken von Theodor Leutwein newspaper clipping collection, 1898 - 1921

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

Also includes:Import and export of goods produced in colonial areas - Charts

On 27 January 1898, the first troop parade of the German army took place in the new colony at the beach camp in Tsingtau. Before the squadron commander Admiral von Diederichs and his officers the newly landed troops defile / Photographer: Scherl

The warship 'Hertha' is anchored in the harbour of Dar-es-Salaam / Photographer: Scherl

Circular of the German Women's Association to recruit new members, 1886; Correspondence with the German Women's Association, 1887-1889; advertising leaflet of a lottery for East Africa (print), 1891; statutes of the EMDOA (print); newspaper clippings on colonization and missionary work in East Africa

Contains only: Newspaper clippings

• 1914-1919, Bundesarchiv, BArch R 57 Deutsches Ausland-Institut Contains, among other things,:<br />Report on the financial year 1914 together with a treatise On the development and significance of the Kiautschou region;<br />Articles of Association of the German-Chinese Association;<br />Protocols of the meetings of the committee, 1915-1918;<br />Weekly report for the Germans expelled from China description: Contains, among other things,:<br />Report on the financial year 1914: Report on the business year 1914 together with a treatise on the development and significance of the Kiautschou region; statutes of the German-Chinese Association; minutes of the meetings of the committee, 1915-1918; weekly report for the Germans expelled from China.

In New Cameroon a commission establishes the border between German and French colonial territory / Photographer: Scherl

Contains: Correspondence with the Board of Directors: Business matters; foundation of a German-Moroccan newspaper; establishment of a German library in Tangier; invitations and agendas for board meetings; business reports; statistics on the import of goods from Morocco to Germany

German family with local servants and a Christmas tree in their house in New Guinea / Photographer: Scherl

A member of the German colonial administration in New Guinea.

Contains: Collection of newspaper clippings on German colonial policy Colonial policy of State Secretary Dernburg in Deutsch-Südwestafrika, 1908-1910 Living and working conditions for women in Deutsch-Südwestafrika, 1909-1911 German press comments on the attitude of Dr. Karl Peters and State Secretary Dernburg in colonial policy towards Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Aug./Sept. 1910 Contributions on German colonial policy in Deutsch-Südwestafrika by Dr. Paul Rohrbach, 1910-1912

Contains: Correspondence and newspaper clippings about industry, especially about diamond mining, agriculture and career prospects in German South West Africa Directories of German companies and settlers in German South West Africa

Contains:

Zeitungen

Germany: Prisoners, including: Agreement for the transmission of a letter from the Knockaloe Prisoners' Aid Society to the German Government. Johann Hermann Hahn: authorisation for his release to Denmark. Private Edward Pinney: investigation into the circumstances of his death at Langensalza Camp, including: Cause of death given as meningitis by the German authorities. Statements by Corporal H Drewitt and Trooper A McFarlane on the circumstances of Private Pinney's death. Memorandum to the German Government requesting an official investigation. Statements by various British prisoners (names in docket nos.50869 and 75249). Report of the German investigation. Effects of long-term internment on prisoners, including: Mrs Anna Burrows: request for the transfer to Switzerland of long-term prisoners. Depositions provided by Captain A W Colley and Lieutenant R E Barnes. Recommendation by the Admiralty for the repatriation of prisoners who had been in captivity for two years or more. Regulations on the sale and consumption of alcoholic liquor in internment camps in the UK. Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck and Mr Peto: parliamentary questions on the exchange of long-term prisoners. Memorandum on the effects of continued imprisonment. Sir Henry Lunn: extracts from a letter from his son, Hugh Lunn, interned at Karlsruhe Camp. Copy of a telegram to Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig concerning the transfer of long-term prisoners to a neutral country. Memorandum to the German Government recommending the transfer to a neutral country of prisoners interned for two years or more. Captain Button: request by his wife, Mrs Elizabeth Button, for his transfer to Switzerland. Sir John Lonsdale and Mr HumeWilliams: parliamentary questions about the response of the German Government to the proposal for the transfer of prisoners. Captain J Johnston Watson, interned at Augustabad: report that the text of the British proposal was being displayed in prison camps in Germany. Captain Graham Toler: request by his wife for his transfer to Switzerland. Request from the Italian Embassy in London for details of the proposal. Treatment of British and African prisoners in German East Africa, including: List of British prisoners released from Tabora (in docket no.9885). Reverend Ernest F Spanton: extract from an interview with him in The Times of 30 December 1916 on the ill treatment of British prisoners. Reverend H A Keats: evidence on the treatment of prisoners. Reverend Ernest F Spanton: report on the conditions of interned prisoners. Mr James Scott-Brown: report on his experiences as an interned civilian. Typescript articles from The Times and The African Mail on the ill treatment of prisoners; agreement by the German Colonial Office to investigate the charges. Sworn statements by various witnesses (names in docket no.103223). Lieutenant V Sankey, interned at Dar es Salaam: letter from his mother, Mrs May Longe, on the conditions of his internment. Riflemen Murphy and Nicholson: report on the circumstances of their deaths. Private George Flood: report of an interview with him. Rifleman Nicholson: various witness statements (names in docket no.150796) relating to the circumstances of his death. Reports on the Treatment by the Germans of British Prisoners and Natives in German East Africa , parliamentary command paper [Cd. 8689], Miscellaneous No. 13 (1917). Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War: proof copy of a report on the treatment by the German authorities in German East Africa of British civilian prisoners of war. Decision not to bring charges against the German prisoner Volhamer in connection with the death of Rifleman Nicholson. Theodore Kroell, interned at Knockaloe Camp, Isle of Man: decision that he could not be repatriated to the USA instead of Germany. German memorandum on the typhus epidemic at Gardelegen Camp, with an article (German language) from Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of 17 December 1916. Leutnant der Reserve Otto Schultz: report of his death at Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley. Lieutenant R F Gore-Browne, interned at Stralsund: request from his father, Mr F Gore-Browne, for his exchange for a German prisoner. Wilhelm Dröge, interned at Liverpool, New South Wales: question of compensation for an injury sustained while working in a sawmill. Mr Richard Wolf Gordon, a British subject resident in Bavaria: arrangements for the payment of his pensions from the Probate Registry and the Government of Nyasaland. Statement by various German prisoners (names in docket no.10961) on their treatment while being transported from Chinde to Beira on SS Ipu. German memorandum on the payment of relief funds to German nationals. Code 1218 Files 8591-11299.

Germany: Prisoners, including: German prisoners in British or British Empire custody, including: Sentences passed on German prisoners at Pietermaritzburg, Union of South Africa. Ration scale at Pietermaritzburg Camp. Reports on internment camps at Alexandra Palace, London; Frith Hill, near Frimley, Surrey; Leigh, Lancashire; Dorchester; and Donington Hall, Derbyshire. Internment camp at Knockaloe, Isle of Man: adverse German press cuttings from Kölnische Zeitung of 16 July 1916 and National Zeitung of 19 July 1916. Reports by US Embassy officials on their visits from 31 August to 6 September 1916 and on 28 and 29 November 1916 (the latter including the Isle of Man Insane Asylum and the Private General Hospital, Isle of Man). Detention barracks at Trial Bay, New South Wales, Australia. Otto Mueller: his alleged ill-treatment while detained in Canada. Printed despatch from the Government of India concerning the treatment of German subjects at Ahmednagar Camp. Lieutenant Thomas von Grote: his sentence remitted by the Army Council; returned to internment in the officers' camp at Holyport, Berkshire. Camp for civilian prisoners at Glendairy, Barbados, West Indies. Labour of German prisoners in Canada. Treatment of German prisoners in Jamaica and South Australia. Reports on working camps at Lentran, Inverness-shire; Nethybridge, Inverness-shire; Kinlochleven, Argyllshire; Redesdale, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland; Healeyfield, Castleside, Durham; Newlandside, Stanhope, Durham. Treatment of German soldiers serving punishment sentences. Report on place of internment for alien civilians at Gainsborough Road, Hackney Wick, London. Housing of German prisoners in Britain: insistence by German Government that barracks replace tents, otherwise reprisals to be taken. Medical and dental treatment of prisoners in Canada. Internment camp at Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. Treatment of German prisoners in hospitals in Britain. Restrictions on visitors' interviews at Liverpool Camp, New South Wales, Australia. Report on outbreak of gastro-intestinal disorder at Lower Southern Hospital at Dartford, Kent; US Embassy visits to hospitals at Dartford and Devonport requested. Flogging of Germans at Rabaul, New Britain. Gefreiter Julius Koch and Unteroffizier Heinrich Brinkmann: their complaints about conditions of punishment for attempting to escape refuted by War Office. Internment camp at Torrens Island, South Australia. Code 1218 File 591 (papers 180902-end).

Contains: Colonial Claims of Germany

Enthält nur: "Colonial activity - French colonies and Rhine countries" (o.V.) in "La Dépêche Marocaine" (Tangier) Nr. 5016 vom 7. Nov. 1919 (A10bg4a)

Contains: Colonial Affairs.- Newspaper cuttings.- Circular.- General instructions to the police force for police.- Provisional instruction for the assessment of physical fitness for service in the tropics.