The Rise of the German Colonial Empire - Germany's Colonial Past in Africa and Asia 

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There's not many videos talking about this topic so its great that you have shared this information, great video friend!

The work you put into this is admirable, thanks for doing this! Greetings from Germany ✊

I know that the sea above Papua New Guinea is still called the Bismarck Sea

Visiting Namibia is a great experience; there are many abandoned mining towns there, half-submerged under the sand. And, of course, the bad blood just under the gloss between the natives and Germans who remained.

thank you for a fantastic video. very educating.

Excellent video.

My country sweden actualy also had a few tiny colonies like swedish gold coast and new sweden

Germany lost all colonies because lose in ww1

For a short time, Prussia had a small colonial empire so insignificant, there is really only one colony in Africa, and it’s very tiny. A short time later Britain probably bought it away

thank u brother i couldnt find it anywhere else and searched alot for this

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The way Germany got Nauru is fun story. British and German explorers found the island at a time when the locals were not a huge fan of their king. To escalate things, Germany sold guns to them which sparked a civil war. By the end 1000 of the 3000 natives had died and so Germany just kind of annexed the island.

Great video

Interesting topic. Thx

(To your first question) I always think of the Luxembourgish empire! 😂 Jokes aside. Yeah I tend to think of the British Italians and French when I think of empires as you said. Another great video! I find these videos as equally as interesting as your territorial evolution videos. Perhaps you could do a video on the rise of the Belgian empire? As not many people know about it and not many know about this topic and this got a lot of views!

I never came to a realization that German empire existed only for 30 years. Ps. I meant the colonial Empire, I tough that it will be obvious in the context of the video.

I learned Japan got its foothold in the South Pacific by getting Germany's coaling stations.

From [ 13:37] on the German colonies in the Pacific

By 1898, the Germans controlled all of Tanganyika’s main population centers and lines of communication. The German rule of East Africa was solely based on force and German officials inspired great terror. When the Germans were in control of Tanganyika, two broad phases can summarize their rule. In the 1890’s their aims were military security and political control; to achieve this the Germans used a mixture of violence and alliances with African leaders. These ‘local compromises’, as they may be called, had common characteristics. The Germans offered political and military support for their allies in exchange for the recognition of German authority, provision of labor and building materials, and the use of diplomacy instead of force in settling issues. Moreover, the imposition of tax in 1898 initiated the transition to the second phase of administration whose chief characteristic was the collapse of the compromises made earlier in the decade. The old compromises collapsed because the increase in German military strength made them less dependent on local allies and while earlier officers often welcomed their collaborators’ power, later ones suspected it. This led to a change from allied to adversarial relationships between some African leaders and the Germans. For example, Mtinginya of Usongo, a powerful Nyamwezi chief aided the Germans against Isike; but by 1901, he became a potential enemy and when he died a year or two later, his chiefdom was deliberately dismantled. However, this was not what happened in other scenarios. Many of the old African collaborators did not necessarily lose power in this second stage of German administration, but to survive they had to adapt themselves and often reorganize their societies. German South West Africa and the Herero and Nama Genocide The Germans colonized South West Africa in a different manner than the rest of their holdings. The main goal of the Germans in Namibia was to provide a Lebensraum for its people: more territory that a state believes is needed for its natural development. German urban areas were overcrowded because of a recent population boom. German officials felt that their people needed space to grow and prosper; the Germans faced a choice of decline through lack of space and loss of population (as many had already left for America), or expanding into new lands. The Germans realized that Namibia would be perfect for this, and in their view, ethnic cleansing was necessary to create Lebensraum. Before it reached that point, the Germans started off slowly in Namibia, from a position of relative weakness. Originally, the Germans used negotiation and bargaining tactics with the Herero people for land. These practices were completely at odds with the German and overall European belief that they were superior to the local Africans and the Germans resented it. The Germans expected to come in and simply begin colonization efforts, but instead they were renting land from the people whom they were supposed to be colonizing; a paradoxical relationship. Eventually, when the Germans believed the time was right to assert more control, they began disputing the Herero claims over land. The Germans also started to treat the Herero harshly, started minor instances of conflict with them, and raped their women; the Herero became convinced that resistance was the only way to combat this. As the Germans became more determined to take Herero land for Lebensraum, the Herero edged closer to open rebellion and killed a number of Germans as a result of this treatment. After the first Germans were killed by the Herero, the Germans turned extreme and believed ethnic cleansing was necessary. Not all Herero acted against the Germans originally and even expressed their continued loyalty. In fact, it was more of a localized rebellion, but the Germans did not care; they attempted to wipe out as many Herero as possible. The Germans forced many Herero into a war they did not want. It was a mixture of nationalism, militarism, and racism that prompted Kaiser Wilhelm II to send a large army to crush the Herero. Negotiation was not an option and the Herero did not see any of this coming; they believed the earlier disputes had been resolved; the Herero moved as far away as possible from the German settlements to try and survive. The Herero hoped for negotiations, but a colonial army arrived instead. The Germans attacked the Herero where they were mainly gathered, right next to the Kalahari Desert. The Germans encircled the Herero but left one part open for them to escape into the Kalahari, expecting them to die of starvation and thirst. After the Germans had pushed the Herero deeper and deeper into the Kalahari, they created a wall of guard posts to seal them off. The Germans believed this behavior was entirely acceptable, and there was an official sanctioning of genocide. Eventually, with pressures from inside the German government as more people learned about the brutality, the Kaiser was forced to tell his military to accept the surrender of the Herero. To persuade their surrender, the Germans told the Herero they would be allowed to return to their homeland, and that they had been pardoned by the Kaiser. However, this was a lie and the Herero that were rounded up were sent to concentration camps. The Herero were beaten, overworked, and starved to death by the German Army; this became the first genocide of the twentieth century. There were almost no free Herero people after the establishment of the concentration camps; slave labour became part of the colonial economy. The German colony rented slaves to private companies, but some companies were so big that they ran their own concentration camps. Arguably the most brutal camp in Namibia was the one located on Shark Island. Entrance to this camp was strictly forbidden as it was an extermination camp, unlike the forced labour camps. Most victims of the Shark Island camp were the Nama people; they saw the tragedy that the Herero went through and rebelled against the Germans in response. Overall, the camps in Namibia provided the blueprint for the death camps of the 20th century to be used by the Nazi regime. The African natives were shipped by cattle cars and taken to a place far from public view to be exterminated. The idea of separating people out from typical society and killing them as quickly as possible was probably born on Shark Island.

Interesting video to see. I wonder if any German culture or language is still prevalent in the present day countries where the colonies were.

yo that were well interesting

German colonies were basically the left overs from the brits , French ..Belgium , Dutch. Or the Italians .....the Germans were not particularly effective colonial aggressors .....

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I never knew Germany colonized parts of China.

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Why're years old videos on the German Colonial Empire re-surfacing on YT?? Does this have anything to do with the current Israel-Palestine Conflict??

Have you consulted Bartholomäus Grills "Wir Herrenmenschen"(~The Master Race )?He outlined a new theory concerning the genocide in namibia,arguing that the number of dead is exaggerated and made up by a historian from the GDR.He backs his claims with the official numbers derived from the missionares concerning the nama and herero overall population and the native strategies to survive in the dessert.He also argues that there was Confusion and uncertainty among the local commanders.But he by no means wants to make it less horrible,additionally he sheds a light onto the impact of forced labour and ww1 commander Von Lettow Vorbeck to name a few topics Give it a try!

Fun factoid re Heligoland--- the Brits swiped it from Denmark... think of the repercusions in 1914 if it had still been British!

Almost all videos from German Colonial the dark side of the Germans, they don't talk about the others, I found this and much more about the other Colonial way before the German Colonial time. Yes, anywhere outside of Namibia and within Namibia it should be said that the Germans were the most benevolent colonists. Germany's handling of the few colonies it had was generally significantly better than most other countries, accompanied by actual investment in the regions rather than just being exploitative. Britain commits only the violent suppression of colonial uprisings. French authorities abused and tortured Algerian civilians. Electroshocks and the use of water wells as prisons were among the methods used by the colonialist authorities against prisoners in Algeria.

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Man nobody talks about South American German Colonies.

to claim that any colonial empire was "fairly humanitarian", or humanitarian at all for that matter, is a very 'interesting' way to frame history, to put it mildly.

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You forgot holland ..✌️..;)

The German Colonisation was not as bad as others right? I mean, we were not as opressing and cruel as others.... *Looking at german colonial history* No... we fucked that up as well...

As a namibian, nambia was not a colony but a protectorate. Regards

How many Africans were killed during this colonization?

Today germans still have unofficial colonies in many parts of south america, for example here in my country Paraguay there is a place called "Nueva Germania" where the people learn to talk german, besides in one big part in the south of Brazil the german is a cooficial lenguage, i know that there are places in Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, countries in central america and especially in Argentina where germans live and conserve their idiom and culture. I know they are good and working people (my english is not the best)

The Germans were amateur colonisers compared to the Dutch and English...

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Them Germans were out to finish african natives in their colonies.

That's to bad that Germany lost all of them

@5:35 you say "Germans respected the religion of Islam" Were the Africans Muslims before European Colonization?

Oh I love the German woman, I thank the German man for letting me have the best Woman in th he world as a wife.

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Once Qingdao was Hong Kong of German

*In Honolulu Intensifies*

wow germany had big colonies in africa.

I used to thin Europe looked very rich in history and beautiful. But now Europe remind me of crumbling colonialism dying thieves and crooks.

The main problem with this video is the mispronunciation of German Ws. Why pronouncing them like they were English? What's the point? Doing a favor to some ignorant English speakers? If you speak German, pronounce German Ws properly.

Tanzania Usambara Lushoto, People still remember German language.

I think you are doing a good job except that you are doing the same as the other English RU-vidrs, you make Germany negative, the other countries that have colonies never write a negative word about them, some were not better or worse than Germany, I now live in here in Indonesia, now I have become aware that Indonesia was a Dutch colony for 350 years, until about 1942, very little influence has remained here from the Dutch people, a few old people still speak Dutch, Namibia only 30 years under Germany and the German language are very popular in Namibia, and the German language is increasing in Namibia. please also write the positive things of the German Colonies, always try to write something positive that remains interesting, just remember Holland was not so good in there Colonies. the English people were terrible in their Colonies, in America 95% from the Native people died, in Canada 80% died, the Spanish were very very bad too, Belgium was the worst in Africa. Colonizing is not bad, but be nice to the people out there. Thank you for your Job, you made it interesting, but maybe you can make it little more positive what the Germans did good

No wonder our native tongue is mixed german

Guarunteed if the Allies weren't so harsh on Germany after WWI, WWII wouldn't have happened.

And it shall rise again

Least genocidal colonial nation by far. Germans were saints compared to other colonial powers.

I miss german colonies. They knew what was up.