Cheers once again - all this should keep me busy!
On 16 Feb 2009, at 14:27, Banton, Mandy wrote:
> Edward Paice also discusses casualty figures in Tip and Run: the
> untold tragedy of the Great War in Africa (Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
> 2007) - and adds the 1.5 to 2 million estimated deaths in sub-Saharan
> Africa from the influenza pandemic that started in the last weeks of
> the war.
>
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> From: The Black and Asian Studies Association on behalf of John Siblon
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> Subject: Re: Propaganda and truth about the first world war
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> Angela,
>
> The casualty figures I mentioned were for the First World War. There
> was
> fighting in what was called then Togoland, The Cameroons, German South
> West Africa and German East Africa but the fighting spilled over into
> many
> other Colonies of the European powers of that time including the
> Belgian
> Congo, British East Africa and Portuguese East Africa.
>
> In nearly all of these campaigns, as well as the European casualties,
> which
> has traditionally been the focus of casualty figures, you need to look
> at the
> casualty figures for colonial troops, African and Asian, of both sides
> and you
> certainly need to look at the casualty figures for carriers, porters
> and
> labourers. Here the figures are usually estimates and on the German
> side
> hardly kept at all.
>
> There was also deaths amongst the African civilian population to be
> considered. A significant number of carriers on both sides were
> impressed and
> taken away form their farms, which led to famine in large parts of the
> continent. There were also victimes in this way of the scorched earth
> policies,
> which are a major part of warfare.
>
> A good place to start is to look at Hew Strachan's, The First World
> War in
> Africa, Oxford University Press reprint, 2007.
>
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