Declan Murphy schrieb:
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> Silvio Franke wrote:
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> > Declan Murphy schrieb:
> >
> >>Silvio Franke wrote:
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> >>>Only for PapuaNew Guinea?
> >>>One or two years ago I wrote a housework about former German colonies
> >>
> >>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.

His fighting is still a good example for, what we call here 
"Verzoegerungstaktik" and the binding of enemy resources.

> > 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.

But the Germans learned their lesson. We now send millions of 
tourists to the place of our interest and slowly and secretly 
annex it. It works in large parts of Italy, Austia (the other one) 
Greece and Spain. Only in Mallorca and Ibiza the British show some 
resistance by using the same tactics.

Silvio
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Sometimes I feel the strong urge to march east...