re: Longest Paper You wrote in College

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I can only imagine. I mean, the trinité coloniale in the Congo vs ... well, I suppose that would be dependent upon what period of SW African German colonialism we're talking about?

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The German experience in SW Africa is fascinating, to me. Most of the research that I did stemmed from the transition from Leutwein to von Trotha in the colonial government, and how they regarded the natives. von Trotha and Leon Rom (basis for Col. Kurtz in Heart of Darkness) had an awful lot of similarities.

Perhaps even more fascinating than the several decades after the Conference of Berlin was the myriad of Great War battles fought in Africa, and how the English convinced the Afrikaners to fight against the Germans. Some of the bloodiest, most violent, hate-filled battles in the war weren't in France- they were in Tanzania.

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And the execution of the royal family ... No one deserved what that family got.

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Agreed.

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I know people that fought there in the 70s, against the Chimurenga ... I was actually invited but declined the offer.

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Oh wow. In hindsight, there are few wars that were more justified or righteous than that one - and the wrong side lost. Everything that Smith predicted would happen, did. And worse.

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We need to drink beer and talk history.

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I'm down.

If I can ever get back to SC for more than an evening.