tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post8143210135585980701..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: The Great War in German AfricaMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-55641615657670318902017-05-05T08:55:21.288-05:002017-05-05T08:55:21.288-05:00Wait, you mean Germany had a colony in what is now...Wait, you mean Germany had a colony in what is now Tanzania too?<br /><br />I was reading inattentively and thought this was Südwest!Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-40255597170293339042017-04-29T14:11:07.082-05:002017-04-29T14:11:07.082-05:00I don't think so, von Trotha served in Southwe...I don't think so, von Trotha served in Southwest Africa, not East Africa which is where Lettow-Vorbeck was posted.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-53220779534586343522017-04-29T10:37:38.250-05:002017-04-29T10:37:38.250-05:00I suppose Lettow-Vorbeck had replaced Lothar von T...I suppose Lettow-Vorbeck had replaced Lothar von Trotha?Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-52707738156987061742014-11-11T23:14:09.611-06:002014-11-11T23:14:09.611-06:00Not much you can say to that ... that's just t...Not much you can say to that ... that's just tossing the very idea of "facts" out the window. WW1 had fighting all over (as mentioned above) and in WW2 there was more than just the fighting in Tunisia, Libya & Egypt. There were the campaigns in east Africa, sabotage by Nazi sympathizers in South Africa, even an operation in Madagascar. And certainly there was far more combat in Asia in WW2 that I wouldn't think one could just ignore. Heck, alot of right-wingers in Japan like to ignore Europe & Africa altogether and just call it the "Greater East Asian War".<br /><br />Islam an African religion? Sorry, north Africa at least had been Christian long before Mohammed was ever a twinkle in his daddy's eye -and that was in Arabia. Of course, there's also alot of ignorance (willful usually) about the Islamic domination of the slave trade in Africa long before Europe ever got in the business and even then it lingered on long after Europeans did away with it. One of the last big slave-trading rings was in East Africa run by the Muslim rulers of Sudan and Zanzibar.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-60065727417354973112014-11-11T20:33:07.385-06:002014-11-11T20:33:07.385-06:00I had an African history professor in college that...I had an African history professor in college that insisted on referring to WWs I&II as the First and Second European Wars. Aside from the obviously false implication that they were the only two wars ever fought in Europe, it completely ignored the fact that a lot of fighting happened in Africa and included African troops and independent African countries. <br /><br />Of course, she also maintained that Islam was a "native" African religion and Christianity was imported and forced on the population by Europeans, which required the convenient ignorance of the ancient Christian church in Ethiopia. <br />Anyway, thanks for shedding light on an often ignored part of history.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08368547834849724343noreply@blogger.com