German Africa

American  

noun

1. the former German colonies in Africa, comprising German East Africa, German Southwest Africa, Cameroons, and Togoland.

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Example Sentences

Then there may be an army of 1,000,000 men in German Africa, and the colony will have its own war navy, like Brazil.

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German Africa, which will find allies at once in Abyssinia and in Mohammedan freedom movements, will make the employment of black troops against our European frontiers impossible.

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German Africa alone will give us a balance of power in the East and in Africa.

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In the same review Emil Zimmermann explains the rôle of German East Africa in the future scheme of world power: German Africa would have balance of power in the East.

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Lloyd George has declared "the general principle of national self-determination applicable at least to German Africa," while Chancellor Hertling once welcomed a discussion "on the reconstruction of the world's colonial possessions."

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