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Article: Gender construction and settler colonialism in German Southwest Africa, 1894-1914.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Indeed I love my Fatherland, love the German Rhine, / I know your
traditions still and drink your wine. / Yet sea and land separate
me from your cool strand, / Since I found my home in African land.
Even more than home I found here, I found my kingdom, / In which I
myself am king, no other equals him. / My kingdom, I created it
myself through work without rest, / And what I did for myself was
never a burden to me.
A. Hermkes's poem, "The German Farmer in Southwest" (1)
Strengthening the feeling of home, strengthening of racial consciousness, protection of the physical and moral entirety, preservation of a healthy German progeny, ...