Talk:South West Africa campaign

message: Portugal was not a belligerent to after this campaign ended. I think we need sources for this.Slatersteven (talk) 13:11, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: portugal

message: I have found an unproof read version of this article in  s:Page:EB1922 - Volume 31.djvu/263 (The campaign article starts at the top of the second column). I am sorting out a template so that we can include the text of it into this article.  -- PBS (talk) 12:23, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Article in the Encyclopaedia Britannica 1922

message: Article claims more than 1,000 fatalities for the German side. Is there any source given for that ? It seems hardly believable, that relation of 1:10 in favour of the allied forces. Including deaths in captivity up to 1918, Gedenkbuch zum Kolonial-Ehrenmal Bremen (1932) names some 200 german dead for the SW african theatre, see: List of German Dead in South West Africa, WW I --93.104.188.110 (talk) 08:11, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: One reason for the discrepancy could be that the 200 German dead in the Gedenkbuch are all (as per their names), German citizens, not to mention that the vast majority are regular troops. By contrast, I think the 1,131 death toll is drawn from the total number engaged and so, I presume, likely includes the "7000 militiamen and settlers". Unless this latter group suffered very few casualties, it would seem odd that the Gedenkbuch has so few listed as "Kriegsfreiwilliger", not to mention that the Gedenkbuch didn't mention a single askari, which must have comprised the majority of the 3000 Schutztruppen engaged. That said, I think you're right that an exact source should be added. Mojowiha (talk) 02:23, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Mojowiha: what have these askari to do with GSWA ? (they are related to German East Africa) One finds virtually not a single hint that any indigenous people fought with the German military in German South West Africa. Btw, German citizen (settlers) in GSWA were subject to conscription. ----212.114.233.8 (talk) 18:23, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

text: Strachan, H. (2001). To Arms. The First World War I. Oxford: OUP. . p. 568 has Union:113 killed, 153 died of disease and accidents, 263 wounded; Germans, 1,188 casualties, of which 103 killed, 890 pow, 4,740 surrendered with 37 field guns and 22 m-g.Keith-264 (talk) 14:24, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Casualty relation: 10:1 for the allied side ? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The following paragraph was in the Aftermath section, with no citations.  It's subject matter is many decades beyond the direct aftermath of this campaign.  I've deleted it from the article, but paste it here in case anyone wants to incorporate any of it in some other more relevant article.
After many unsuccessful attempts by the UN to persuade South Africa to agree to the implementation of UN Resolution 435, which had been adopted by the UN Security Council in 1978, as the internationally agreed decolonisation plan for Namibia, transition to independence finally started in 1988 under the tripartite diplomatic agreement between South Africa, Angola and Cuba, with the USSR and the USA as observers, under which South Africa agreed to withdraw and demobilise its forces in Namibia and Cuba agreed to pull back its troops in southern Angola, sent to support the MPLA in its war for control of Angola with UNITA. A combined UN civilian and peace-keeping force under Finnish diplomat Martti Ahtisaari supervised the military withdrawals, return of SWAPO exiles and the holding of Namibia's first one-person one-vote election, for a constituent assembly in October 1989. This was won by SWAPO, although it did not gain the two-thirds majority it had hoped for; the South African-backed Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA) became the official opposition.
- ZuluKane (talk) 18:29, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  after the Aftermath 

message: If you're short of a Collyer, I have a copy of The Campaign in German South West Africa 1914–1915 by J. J. Collyer (1937 [1990]) Regards Keith-264 (talk) 17:53, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Keith-264 Thankyou; I now see it's been traced and it's shown above.ArbieP (talk) 18:48, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: OK Keith-264 (talk) 19:12, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources