Germany's chancellor supported the move not to fly the rainbow flag on the Reichstag building, saying "the Bundestag is not a ...

German vehicle manufacturer, Daimler Truck, has announced plans to assemble lorries from various Mercedes-Benz series in the ...

Lüderitz petitioned the German govern- ment, and the German flag was hoisted in the bay for the first time in 1884, to declare German South West Africa.

Compared to other European powers, Germany was late to colonialism. It controlled huge swaths of Africa from 1884 to 1900, through the colonies of German South West Africa, Cameroon, Togoland, and ...

Germany was the colonial ruler of Namibia from 1884 until 1915, when it gave up the territory to South Africa. Namibia finally gained independence from South Africa in 1990.

South West Africa is 900 miles of treeless coast and diamond-bearing desert populated by Afrikaners, Bastards (mixed blood settlers from the old Cape Colony). Hottentots. Hereros and the largest ...

This federation is stated to represent some thirty different societies, composed of over 400,000 members; the principal member organization, the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft, acts under the ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set upright as if reaching for the sun. No one knows where the men they represent were buried. But their ...

When South Africa becomes a republic in the '60s, it hangs onto South West Africa, and it becomes a South African colony. But the population, big part of the population was of German ancestry.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set upright as if reaching for the sun. No one knows where the men they represent were buried. But their ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The names are carved on poles of African hardwood that are set upright as if reaching for the sun. No one knows where the men they represent were buried. But their ...

More than 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combat roles on ... where Allied forces fought in the then-German colonies of German South West Africa (now Namibia) and German ...