What Happened to the German African Colonies after WW1?

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Watch The Great War on Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/the-great-war Thank you William Blakemore Lyon, doctoral candidate at Humboldt University of Berlin, for the research for this episode and thank you to the Gerda Henkel Foundation for making it possible for William to pursue this project. More about William: https://www.iaaw.hu-berlin.de/en/region/africa/africa/history/staff/william-lyon?set_language=en Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points and their idea of self-determination didn't go unnoticed in the former German colonies like German Southwest Africa. But especially South Africa had other ideas at the Paris Peace Conference and lobbied to take control over future Namibia and its lucrative diamond mines.   » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegreatwar  Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A/join   » OUR PODCAST https://realtimehistory.net/podcast - interviews with World War 1 historians and background info for the show.   » BUY OUR SOURCES IN OUR AMAZON STORES https://realtimehistory.net/amazon * *Buying via this link supports The Great War (Affiliate-Link)   » SOURCES  Emmett, Tony. 1999. Popular Resistance and the Roots of Nationalism in Namibia, 1915-1966. Basel, Switzerland: P. Schlettwein Publishing. Olusoga, David, and Casper W. Erichsen. 2011. The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism. London, UK: Faber and Faber. Onselen, Charles van. 1980. Chibaro: African mine labour in

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