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[Above: A Feldkompagnie of askaris during rifle training.]

[Above: Criminals meet their fate.]

[Above: 'Schutztruppe' askaris of the 6. Feldkompagnie cleaning their JB71 rifles in Udjiji in 1912.]

[Above: Young askaris training with two heliographs as part of the Schutztruppe Signal Detachment.]

[Above: Askari standing guard, circa 1914.]

[Above: A Schutztruppe askari reading a newspaper to his comrades. The Germans taught young askaris to read and write at their Signals Depot in Dar-Es-Salaam.]

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[Above: Askaris of the 21. Feldkompanie, 1917.]

[Above: German East African Polizeitruppe. Note the German NCO on the far left of the group. Circa 1906-1914.]

[Above: German East African Schutztruppe captured by British Rhodesian troops during WWI at Ilembula, December 1916.]

[Above: An old veteran sporting a ton of medals and looking very cool.]

[Above: A studio portrait of a German East African soldier.]

[Above: German veterans of WII in German East Africa marching in Germany.]

[Above: The placards on this truck basically say: 'Without colonies there would be no raw materials - without raw materials there is no work'.]