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1 2 3 4 “Statistische Angaben zu den deutschen Kolonien”. www.dhm.de (bằng tiếng Đức). Deutsches Historisches Museum. Truy cập ngày 29 tháng 9 năm 2016 . Sofern nicht anders vermerkt, beziehen sich alle Angaben auf das Jahr 1912.
Tây Nam Phi: 835 100 km²
Kamerun: 495 000 km²
Togoland: 87 200
Đông Phi thuộc Đức: 995 000
Tân Guinea thuộc Đức: 240 000
Quần đảo Marshall: 400
vịnh Kiautschou (Sơn Đông): 515
Quần đảo Caroline, Palau, and Quần đảo Mariana: 2 376
Samoa thuộc Đức: 2 570
↑  Diese deutschen Wörter kennt man noch in der Südsee, von Matthias Heine "Einst hatten die Deutschen das drittgrößte Kolonialreich[...]"
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Washausen, Hamburg und die Kolonialpolitik des Deutschen Reiches, p. 21; in this effort and conjointly with his firm rejection of taking over the French colonial possessions after the Franco-Prussian war, Bismarck in February 1871 characterised a German acquisition of colonies as equivalent to the Polish nobility wearing silks and furs when they needed shirts.
↑  Washusen, p. 61
↑  Reichstag deputy Friedrich Kapp stated in debate in 1878 that whenever there is talk of "colonization," he would recommend to keep pocketbooks out of sight, "even if the proposal is for the acquisition of paradise." [Washausen, p. 58]
↑  Taylor, Bismarck. The Man and the Statesman, p. 215
↑  Crankshaw, Bismarck, p. 395
↑  Washausen, p. 115
↑  Crankshaw, p. 397.
↑  Taylor, p. 221.
↑  {Biskup, Thomas; Kohlrausch, Martin. "Germany 2: Colonial Empire". Credo Online. Credo Reference. }
↑  later Kaiser-Wilhelmsland and the Bismarck Archipelago
↑  Washausen, p. 67-114; the West and East Africa firms
↑  Haupt, tr. 106
↑  Miller, Battle for the Bundu, p. 6
↑  Miller, tr. 10
↑  Washausen, tr. 116
↑  Miller, tr. 9
↑  once the military command was able to harness this aggressiveness through training, the German Askari forces of the Schutztruppe demonstrated that fierce spirit in their élan and war time performance [Miller, p. 28]
↑  Detzner, Hermann, (Oberleut.) Kamerun Boundary: Die nigerische Grenze von Kamerun zwischen Yola und dem Cross-fluss. M. Teuts. Schutzgeb. 26 (13): 317–338.
↑  Louis (1963), p. 178
↑  Garfield, The Meinertzhagen Mystery, p. 83
↑  Miller, p. 19.
↑  Miller, tr. 20
↑  Churchill, Llewella P. Samoa 'uma . New York: F&S Publishing Co., 1932, tr. 231
↑  Miller, tr. 21
↑  Gann, L.H. & Duignan, Peter. The Rulers of German East Africa, 1884–1914. Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press. 1977, p. 271
↑  Hull, Isabel V., Absolute destruction: military culture and the practices of war in Imperial Germany, pp 3ff.
↑  A. Dirk Moses, Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation and Subaltern Resistance in World History, p. 301
↑  Miller, p. 23, German East Africa Usambara Railway and Central Railway; Haupt, p. 82, Togoland coast line and Hinterlandbahn; Haupt, p. 66, Kamerun northern and main line; Haupt, p. 56, map of rail lines in German South West Africa
↑  Miller, p. 21, school system in German East Africa; Garfield, p. 83, "hundreds of thousands of African children were in school"; Schultz-Naumann, p. 181, school system and Chinese student enrollment in Kiautschou; Davidson, p. 100, New Zealand building on the German educational infrastructure
↑  Miller, p. 68, German East Africa, Tanga, shelling of hospital by HMS Fox; Haupt, p. 30, photograph of Dar es Salaam hospital; Schultz-Naumann, p. 183, Tsingtao European and Chinese hospital; Schultz-Naumann, p. 169, Apia hospital wing expansion to accommodate growing Chinese labor force
↑  Miller, p. 22
↑  Miller, p. 22
↑  Haupt, tr. 74
↑  Haupt, tr. 129
↑  Lewthwaite, p. 149-151, in Samoa "German authorities implemented policies to draw [locals] into the stream of economic life," the colonial government enforced that native cultivable land could not be sold; Miller, p. 20, in German East Africa "new land laws sharply curtailed expropriation of tribal acreage " and "African cultivators were encouraged to grow cash crops, with technical aid from agronomists, guaranteed prices and government assistance in marketing the produce."
↑  Firth, Stewart (1983). New Guinea Under the Germans. Carlton, Australia: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84220-8.
↑  “Rank Order – Area”. CIA World Fact Book. Bản gốc lưu trữ ngày 9 tháng 2 năm 2014. Truy cập ngày 12 tháng 4 năm 2008.
↑  “The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia”. Truy cập ngày 22 tháng 9 năm 2016.
Bộ trưởng Thuộc địa Đức Bernhard Dernburg (thứ 2 từ phải sang) trong chuyến thị sát ở Đông Phi, với các quan chức Anh tại Nairobi năm 1907
Ga xe lửa ở Lüderitz , Namibia, 2006