Silvio Franke wrote:
> 
> Declan Murphy schrieb:
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>>Silvio Franke wrote:
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>>>Only for PapuaNew Guinea?
>>>One or two years ago I wrote a housework about former German colonies
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>>They made you study Paul von Lettow Vorbeck?
> 
> Not only him. But they didn't force me.

Quite true, his achievements are incredibly absorbing reading.

> Namibia - You mean Deutsch-Suedwestafrika? 

I dunno, do I? Prolly.

> Nah, the wound has healed quite good. It saved Germany from the 
> trouble with colonies, which are fighting for independence and so on. 
> No colonies - no trouble

A lesson new empires never seem to learn from those they replace.




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