A Foot in the Door: The Colonial Section of the German Foreign Office and the Settlement of Germans in Interwar Tanganyika

IF 0.8 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
W. Sandler
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After 1925, German settlers began to return to the former German East Africa, lost through the Treaty of Versailles and transformed into the British Mandate of Tanganyika. The German Foreign Office's Colonial Section took on a proactive role to facilitate these Germans’ settlement in their former colony, including working with German ministries to release funding and navigating the British administration and settlers on the ground in Tanganyika. While Germany had lost its overseas colonies, these officials, many of whom had served in the pre-war empire, did not view their activity in colonial spaces like Tanganyika as belonging to the past. Officials in the Colonial Section navigated the appearance of political neutrality while also promoting their ‘colonial-political’ goals, hoping to create footholds of Germanness in Tanganyika that would keep open the possibility of future empire.
临门一脚:德国外交部殖民处与战时德国人在坦噶尼喀的定居
1925 年后,德国定居者开始返回因《凡尔赛条约》而失去的前德属东非,并将其转变为英国的坦噶尼喀委任统治地。德国外交部殖民处发挥了积极作用,为这些德国人在其前殖民地定居提供便利,包括与德国各部委合作发放资金,以及在坦噶尼喀当地与英国政府和定居者进行沟通。虽然德国失去了海外殖民地,但这些官员(其中许多人曾在战前帝国任职)并不认为他们在坦噶尼喀等殖民地的活动属于过去。殖民科的官员们在政治上保持中立的同时,也在推动他们的 "殖民政治 "目标,希望在坦噶尼喀建立起德国的立足点,为未来帝国的建立提供可能性。
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期刊介绍: Contemporary European History covers the history of Eastern and Western Europe, including the United Kingdom, from 1918 to the present. By combining a wide geographical compass with a relatively short time span, the journal achieves both range and depth in its coverage. It is open to all forms of historical inquiry - including cultural, economic, international, political and social approaches - and welcomes comparative analysis. One issue per year explores a broad theme under the guidance of a guest editor. The journal regularly features contributions from scholars outside the Anglophone community and acts as a channel of communication between European historians throughout the continent and beyond it.
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