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In this publication we follow the gunner from Hesse, Karl Waldeck, with "jingoism" to his training unit in Saarburg in Lorraine with Field Artillery Regiment No. 15. Readers are given a detailed insight into the training practices in the military units of the German Empire. After the military drudgery in Lorraine, he volunteered for service in arms in the protectorate of German South-West Africa.
We are there for the long crossing on the steamship "Prinzregent'", including equator baptism, and the arrival in Swakopmund. We feel for the recruits, in view of the ten houses of the "port city of Swakopmund" - you can literally see the "long faces", Karl Waldeck tells us his first impressions so precisely. In Swakopmund, Karl Waldeck reports to the 2nd Mountain Battery, stationed in the "Marble Barracks" Johann-Albrechtshöhe near Karibib. His records during this period include not only the military aspects of his new unit. He perceives his new surroundings with open eyes and an alert mind. He takes an interest in the animal and plant life in the colony, befriends natives and learns a lot from his new friends. His critical attitude towards the missionary system in German Southwest Africa is striking. We accompany Karl Waldeck until the outbreak of World War I in South West Africa. This authentic story was put down on paper after the defeat, in the English prison camp Aus. This kind of "memoir literature" provides an important and further piece of the mosaic for the history of the former colony of German South-West Africa.
We are there for the long crossing on the steamship "Prinzregent'", including equator baptism, and the arrival in Swakopmund. We feel for the recruits, in view of the ten houses of the "port city of Swakopmund" - you can literally see the "long faces", Karl Waldeck tells us his first impressions so precisely. In Swakopmund, Karl Waldeck reports to the 2nd Mountain Battery, stationed in the "Marble Barracks" Johann-Albrechtshöhe near Karibib. His records during this period include not only the military aspects of his new unit. He perceives his new surroundings with open eyes and an alert mind. He takes an interest in the animal and plant life in the colony, befriends natives and learns a lot from his new friends. His critical attitude towards the missionary system in German Southwest Africa is striking. We accompany Karl Waldeck until the outbreak of World War I in South West Africa. This authentic story was put down on paper after the defeat, in the English prison camp Aus. This kind of "memoir literature" provides an important and further piece of the mosaic for the history of the former colony of German South-West Africa.
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- Books (first-hand)
- Author
- Waldeck, Karl
- Title
- Soldatenleben... Erlebnisse als hessischer Kanonier in Lothringen und Deutsch-Südwestafrika
- Details
- Paperback, approx. 35 bw illustrations. 126 pages.
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