Eine Kopfjagd.- Deutsche in Ostafrika - Spuren kolonialer Herrschaft.  by Baer Martin, Schröter Olaf

GERMAN TEXT., Ch. Links Verlag Berlin 2001, German first edition, paper covers, 6 x 9, Fine condition, 220 pages, many illus., notes, bibliog., index.----------------------------------The German colonial rulers were known that they cruelly struck. In East Africa, now Tanzania, they drove around 100 years ago the rebel chieftain Mkwawa not only in death, but separated him from his head to send it as a macabre trophy to Germany. In 1919 the Allies had in Article 246 of the Treaty of Versailles, the return of the people of the skull Mkwawas Wahehe, but only after half a century he turned 1954 back to Tanzania. In light of these head-hunting, Martin Baer and Olaf Schroter tell the story of the former German colony in East Africa: from the conquest of a place in the sun, about the fighting in World War I, the colonial nostalgia in the Weimar Republic, the Nazi world power and today's development plans .