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die Verhandlungen des deutschen Reichstages , 11. Legislature, II. Session. 1905/1907. Reichstag. – 140. Sitzung. 13 December 1906, p. 4367.
    37 . Union of South Africa, Report on the Natives of South-West Africa , Chapter XX.
    38 . J. Zimmerer and J. Zeller (eds), Genocide in German South-West Africa: the  Colonial War of 1904–1908 and Its Aftermath (Monmouth: Merlin Press Ltd., 2008), pp. 76–7.
    39 . Zürn to Luschan, 25 June 1905. MfV,1B 39, vol. 1 775/05. Quoted in A. Zimmerman, Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), p. 245.
    40 . C. Fetzer, ‘Rassenanatomische Untersuchungen an 17 Hottenttotenkoepfen’, Zeitschrift fuer Morphologie und Antropologie 16 (1912).
    41 . Dr Stabsarzt Bofinger, ‘Einige Mitteilungen uber Skorbut’, Deutsche militaerarztliche Zeitschrift 39.15 (1910).
    42 . ELCN, RMS, V.16, Chronik der Gemeinde Lüderitzbucht, pp. 28–9.
    43 . BAB, Colonial Department, File 2140, ‘Note for the Reichstag about the Native Prisoners of War on Shark Island’, p. 88.
    44 . Ibid.
    45 . NAN, ZBU 2369, Secret Files, p. 113.
    46 . Ibid., p. 115.
    47 . BAB, Colonial Department, File 2140, ‘Note for the Reichstag About the Native Prisoners of War on Shark Island’, p. 157.
    48 . Ludwig von Estorff, Wanderungen und Kaempfe in Suedwestafrika, Ostafrika und Suedafrika 1894–1910 (Windhoek: John Meinert (Pty) Ltd, 1996), p. 134.
    49 . NAN, ZBU 456, D IV. l.3, vol. 5, p. 135.
    50 . NAN, ZBU 2369, Witbooi Geheimakten, pp. 152–3.
    51 . ‘Population statistics in Lüderitz (German) as of end-1906: 836 men, 94 women and 49 children under 15 years.’ NAN, ZBU 154, A. VI. a.3, p. 207. For a further discussion on these figures see Erichsen, ‘ The Angel of Death ’, pp. 134–45.
    52 . They had, in a grotesque mirror image of the literal sense of the word, been decimated.
    53 . NAN, ZBU 2369, Witbooi Geheimakten, p. 153.
Notes – 13 ‘Our New Germany on African Soil’
    1 . NAN, Photo collection, ref no. 2857; J. Zeller, ‘Symbolic Politics’, in J. Zimmerer and J. Zeller (eds), Genocide in German South-West Africa: the Colonial War of 1904–1908 and Its Aftermath (Monmouth: Merlin Press Ltd., 2008), pp. 231–49; Kolonial-Post, 1937 , p. 6 (courtesy of Joachim Zeller); D. J. Walther, Creating Germans Abroad (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2002); J. Gewald, We Thought We Would Be Free (Cologne: Ruediger Koeppe Verlag, 2000).
    2 . U. van der Heyden and J. Zeller, Kolonial Metropole Berlin (Berlin: Berlin Edition, 2002), p. 164.
    3 . Kolonial-Post , 1937, p. 6.
    4 . K. Epstein, ‘Erzberger and the German Colonial Scandals: 1905–1910’, The English Historical Review 74, No. 293 (Oct. 1959) pp. 637–63.
    5 . NAN, ZBU 456, D IV. l.3, vol. 6, p. 88.
    6 . NAN, ZBU 465, D IV. M.3, vol. 2, p. 147.
    7 . Ibid., p. 119.
    8 . Ibid., p. 239.
    9 . G. I. Schrank, ‘German South-West Africa: Social and Economic Aspects of Its History, 1884–1915’, unpublished Ph. D. thesis (New York: New York University, 1974), p. 212.
    10 . Walther, Creating Germans , pp. 58–9.
    11 . BAK, Kl. Erw. NL 1037, Nr 8, p. 6.
    12 . Walther, Creating Germans , p. 20.
    13 . Ibid., p. 30.
    14 . Ibid., pp. 90–1.
    15 . Ibid., p. 93.
    16 . Ibid., p 103.
    17 . L. Wildenthal, ‘She Is the Victor’, in G. Eley (ed.), Society, Culture, and the State in Germany, 1870–1930 (University of Michigan Press, 1998), p. 374.
    18 . J. W. Spidle, ‘Colonial Studies in Imperial Germany’, History of Education Quarterly 3.3 (Autumn 1973), pp. 231–47.
    19 . M. Baericke, Luederitzbucht: 1908–1914 (Windhoek: Namibia Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, 2001), p. 33.
    20 . Klaus Dierks, Chronology of Namibian History (Windhoek: Namibia Scientific Society, 2002), p. 138.
    21 . Walther, Creating Germans , p. 46.
    22 . There are still black Namibians today who carry the name von François, and trace their ancestry back to the von François family.
    23 . Decree of the Governor of German South-West