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    Schutztruppe (German: [ˈʃʊtsˌtʁʊpə] , lit. Protection Force) was the official name of the colonial troops in the African territories of the German colonial...
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    The Imperial Schutztruppe for German South West Africa (German: Kaiserliche Schutztruppe für Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was the official name of the military...
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    I. Having successfully evaded the Allies since late 1917, the German Schutztruppe under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck waged a guerilla campaign in Portuguese...
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    1904–1905. The German colonial administration could call on a military Schutztruppe ("Protection force") of 260 Europeans and 2,470 Africans, in addition...
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    Victor Franke, the last commander of the Schutztruppe, capitulated near Khorab. Two members of the Schutztruppe, geography professors Fritz Jaeger and Leo...
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    Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (category Schutztruppe personnel)
    and appointed him to command the German colonial forces, known as the Schutztruppe (protectorate force), in German Kamerun (today's Cameroon, plus a portion...
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    (7 May 1870 – 16 December 1910) was a German colonial officer of the Schutztruppe (the German Empire's colonial forces). He was the long-time commander...
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    reintroduced in 1956. Effendi was also a non-European's officer rank in the Schutztruppe of German East Africa. Similar to the practice, Effendis were promoted...
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    campaign and saw Aitken's troops defeated by a smaller force of German Schutztruppe under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and forced to retreat. Lettow-Vorbeck's...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner-Wildau (category Schutztruppe personnel)
    May 1902 he left the Prussian Army and the following day entered the Schutztruppe for German East Africa. Here, von Lindeiner-Wildau served as the Adjutant...
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    Germany had two armed forces: the Imperial German Army, which included Schutztruppe, Polizeitruppen, Imperial German Air Service, and the Imperial German...
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    Germans subsequently immigrated there, many coming as soldiers (German: Schutztruppe), traders, diamond miners, or colonial officials. In 1915, during the...
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    1908. Schutztruppe machine gun detachment practicing with an MG 01 on a tripod mount in Deutsch-Ostafrika, between 1906 and 1918. Schutztruppe machine...
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    series of military expeditions and border conflicts between the German Schutztruppe in Kamerun and the Fula Sunni Muslim states and tribes that were a part...
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    army of Chief Mkwawa. This was the first major defeat for the German Schutztruppe and the beginning of the Hehe wars. A German monument marks the site...
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    the war, Lettow-Vorbeck was acclaimed as one of Germany's heroes. His Schutztruppe was celebrated as the only colonial German force during World War I that...
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    refer to soldiers in former British colonies. The German Colonial Army (Schutztruppe) of the German Empire employed native troops with European officers and...
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    northern Namibia. The fort was held by four regular soldiers of the German Schutztruppe and three colonial reservists: Fritz Grossman NCO, Jakob Basendowski...
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    Ehrhardt 7.5 cm Model 1904 mountain guns were originally issued to the Schutztruppe in German South-West Africa. The gun was also issued to the Portuguese...
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    Eine Kopfjagd. Deutsche in Ostafrika. Berlin 2001. Doebold, Holger: Schutztruppe Deutsch-Ostafrika. Nigmann, Ernst: Die Wahehe: Ihre Geschichte, Kult-...
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  • Schutztruppe, subtitled "East African Guerilla Warfare, 1914-1918", is a board wargame originally self-published by Jim Bumpas in 1975, then published...
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    Ruins of German Schutztruppe on top of the mountain Dikwillem, where the Germans used to have a Heliographic Station (bird's eye view, 2017)...
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    a period of rapid development, while the German government sent the Schutztruppe (imperial colonial troops) to pacify the region. Both German colonial...
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    service in African theatre of World War I, being the standard rifle of the Schutztruppe. At the same time, the Gewehr 71 with incendiary bullets were used to...
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    colony were determined in 1890 and Germany sent a protective corps, the Schutztruppe under Major Curt von François, to maintain order. Von François stationed...
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  • Artur Schmitt (category Schutztruppe personnel)
    (Bavarian War Academy) in Munich. In 1912, Schmitt joined the Imperial Schutztruppe and was posted to the colony of German Southwest Africa (later Namibia)...
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    the revolt of the Herero and the Nama, which the understaffed Imperial Schutztruppe for German South West Africa were not able to quell. The German government...
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    Occupation". Forgotten Weapons. Retrieved 14 December 2022. "Pistols of the Schutztruppe and Overseas Forces". www.germancolonialuniforms.co.uk. Retrieved 22...
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    actual number of deaths in the limited number of battles with the German Schutztruppe (expeditionary force) were limited; most of the casualties occurred after...
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    delivered by United Kingdom during Winter war.  German Empire: in 1918, Schutztruppe used 17 Vickers guns captured during the South West Africa campaign....
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