The first German airplane and the first German car in the colony Deutsch-Südwestafrika in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

A Schutztruppe aircraft is brought to a tarmac / Photographer: Scherl

Call by the commander-in-chief of the South African Union troops, General Louis Botha, announces that in German Southwest Africa the means of payment will become invalid. / Photographer: Scherl

Announcement of the prohibition to leave the residence of the civilian population / Photographer: Scherl

Announcement by Governor Seitz to the Boers in the colony of German South-West Africa in the First World War / Photographer: Scherl

Artillery department of the Schutztruppe with ox team / 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

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

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

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German troops, colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Reich

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

Boxer Rebellion 1900 - German Troops, Colonies: China, Tsingtau, Germany, German Empire

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

Camel rider patrol of the Schutztruppe at the rest / Photographer: Scherl

Captured English march through the streets of Windhoek / Photographer: Scherl