Adolf Götzen: The German Colonial Governor Whose Campaign Claimed Up to 300,000 African Lives

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History remembers empire-builders in different ways. Some are celebrated in statues and street names. Others are remembered, when they are remembered at all, for the suffering they left behind. Gustav Adolf von Götzen belongs firmly to the second group. As governor of German East Africa, he presided over the crushing of the Maji Maji Rebellion, […] TalkAfricana


