VV(13): Enters Weismann

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In a message dated 04/13/2001 6:15:44 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
michel.ryckx at freebel.net writes:


> Germany only had (up
> till the Versailles treaty) very small (Ruanda-Urundi, if I remember well) 
> or very
> poor (Namibia) colonies.  The impact of the robbing of their colonies on the
> German economy was not very substantial, compared to the other colonial 
> powers.
> 
> 
> 
Actually, by 1914, Germany controlled a colonial empire that rivaled the UK & 
France.  The sun never set on that empire, either.  In Africa, the Germans 
controlled the modern nations of Burundi, Cameroons, Namibia (South-West 
Africa), Rwanda, Tanzania (minus Zanzibar), &  Togo.  In China, they 
controlled Kiautschau (Kiow-Chow) Bay, with the port of Tsingtao (where they 
set up a brewery that still produces a pretty good beer).  That was a 
concession, just the same as Hong Kong was with the British & Macao was with 
the Portuguese.  The Germans also purchase from Spain the Marianas Islands 
(minus Guam) & the Caroline & Palau (now known as Belau) Islands.  Added to 
these Pacific possessions were North-East New Guinea with the port of Madang, 
the Admiralty Islands, Neu Mecklenburg (New Ireland), Nauru & Neu Pommern 
(New Britain) with the port of Herbertshöhe (Rabaul), together known then as 
Kaiser Wilhelmsland.  Western Samoa was also part of the German Colonial 
Empire.
The colonies were beginning to pay for themselves after many years of deficit 
when the war broke out, & Germany was immediately cut off from them by the 
Allies.

jbf
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