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The invasion of the English from the sea was about to begin when, in far-off Angola, the District Commissioner of Outjo, Dr Schultze-Jena, on an official mission, was shot in the back by an overzealous Portuguese lieutenant. Other participants on the German side met their deaths.
This cowardly act could not go unpunished. The commander of the troops, von Heydebreck, as well as the German governor, Seitz, now feared that the Portuguese would enter the war from the north, which would have led to a two-front war. At the same time, there was a real danger that anti-German forces among the natives in Ovamboland might also attempt to take advantage of this warlike situation.
So Major Franke was given the task of making an example in the "north". Franke knew Ovamboland quite well and was respected by the majority of the Ovambo chiefs as a "great warrior".
Taking the "Franke Regiment" (400 men, 16 guns and two machine guns) to its place of deployment was a logistical masterstroke. The first few days on the narrow-gauge railway were uneventful, but from Otjiwarongo the journey continued on horseback, through steppe, deep sand and waterless stages that placed the highest demands on man and beast. In his typical style, Historicus africanus describes in detail this forced march, the negotiations with the Ovambo chiefs to be allowed to pass through their territory, and finally the arrival at the Kunene. There, Franke had patrols sound out the situation before he gave the order to attack Fort Naulila on 18 December 1914. Once again, the author gives us a bird's eye view of the movements of the German and Portuguese troops. Not only do we learn about the German side of this successful punitive expedition, but Historicus africanus also researched the Portuguese sources, so that we get an almost simultaneous detailed explanation of the respective situations.
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This cowardly act could not go unpunished. The commander of the troops, von Heydebreck, as well as the German governor, Seitz, now feared that the Portuguese would enter the war from the north, which would have led to a two-front war. At the same time, there was a real danger that anti-German forces among the natives in Ovamboland might also attempt to take advantage of this warlike situation.
So Major Franke was given the task of making an example in the "north". Franke knew Ovamboland quite well and was respected by the majority of the Ovambo chiefs as a "great warrior".
Taking the "Franke Regiment" (400 men, 16 guns and two machine guns) to its place of deployment was a logistical masterstroke. The first few days on the narrow-gauge railway were uneventful, but from Otjiwarongo the journey continued on horseback, through steppe, deep sand and waterless stages that placed the highest demands on man and beast. In his typical style, Historicus africanus describes in detail this forced march, the negotiations with the Ovambo chiefs to be allowed to pass through their territory, and finally the arrival at the Kunene. There, Franke had patrols sound out the situation before he gave the order to attack Fort Naulila on 18 December 1914. Once again, the author gives us a bird's eye view of the movements of the German and Portuguese troops. Not only do we learn about the German side of this successful punitive expedition, but Historicus africanus also researched the Portuguese sources, so that we get an almost simultaneous detailed explanation of the respective situations.
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- Group
- Books (first-hand)
- Author
- Africanus, Historicus
- Title
- Der 1. Weltkrieg in Deutsch-Südwestafrika 1914/15. Eine Chronik der Ereignisse seit dem 30. Juni 1914. Band 1: "Naulila"
- Details
- Paperback, many bw-photos. 178 pages
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