Governor Adolf Graf von Götzen (5th from left) bids farewell to white and colored soldiers of the 5th Company of the German Protection Force in order to take a longer vacation in Germany. Count von Götzen was governor of German East Africa from 1901 to 1906 / 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 soldiers of the Schutztruppe in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a practice 'firing in two limbs'. / 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

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

The music band of the Askaris (native soldiers of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika) plays their wind instruments. / Photographer: Scherl

The music band of the Askaris (native soldiers of the Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Ostafrika) plays their wind instruments. / 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

Soldiers of the Imperial Marien pose in front of a Buddhist temple in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Funeral of the fallen German soldiers at the cemetery of Swakopmund in March 1916 / Photographer: Scherl

Contains: 2 notebooks 1819 and 1838 - birthday letter 1848 - photo of the colonial summer festival in the Brauhof (Karlsplatz 4) 1907 - letter and inventory of the Armbrust-Schützengesellschaft 1946 - furniture seizure 1948 - letter to the mayor of Schöndorf 1860 (?). - Letter 1859 - Thanks poem to Grand Duchess Maria Pawlowna (printed matter) 1834 - leaflet Infant Care of the Reichsanstalt zur Bekämpfung der Säuglingssterblichkeit (o.D.) - annual report of the Verein zur Fürsorge für erwachsene Blinde des Großherzogtums Sachsen 1900.- Admission certificate to the Brand-Afssecuration Societät for buildings in Großbrembach 1782 - print "Napoleon` s des mortblichen Feldherr und Gesetzgeber Lebewohl" 1837 - call of the Russian army to the German soldiers (o.D.). - Birthday foundation for state welfare purposes 1898 - newspaper clippings: Weimarisches Wochenblatt, no. 24. u. 26.03.1830.- Allgemeine Zeitung no. 250 dated 7 September 1837, no. 251 dated 8 September 1837, no. 252 dated 9 September 1837.- Copy of the "Historische Nachrichten von der berühmten Residenzstadt Weimar (1737).- Copies of the "Historische Nachrichten von der berühmten Residenzstadt Weimar (1737).

A summary court is controlling the execution of three Africans. Loops are attached to the branch of a mango tree, on which the convicts are hanged. In the background and on the right you can see soldiers of an Askari company, on the left German officials and soldiers of the court of execution / Photographer: Scherl

Without the support of his native troops, the so-called Askaris, the German commander in East Africa, the famous General von Lettow-Vorbeck, could never have endured until the end of the war in 1918. The photo shows one of these soldiers from the German Schutztruppe with the imperial flag in his hand. Undated recording. / Photographer: Scherl

Soldiers of the Schutztruppe in Deutsch-Südwestafrika on their camels / Photographer: Scherl

Soldiers of the Schutztruppe and their military transport goods in the colony D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during World War I / Photographer: Scherl

German soldiers and Askari of the protective group in defensive position in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a during 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

Soldiers stand around a German field gun conquered by the Japanese in Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl

Soldiers of the Schutztruppe load the horses in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika during the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

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

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

Soldiers of the Schutztruppe under the leadership of General Lothar von Trotha join the fight against the insurgents around Hassan bin Omari Makunganya / 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

Soldiers of the German Schutztruppe in front of the signal station of Tsingtau with training flags. / Photographer: Scherl

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

Soldiers and equipment in front of the team building of the German Schutztruppe in Schatsekou near Tsingtau / Photographer: Scherl