Kolonie niemieckie w Afryce w świetle polskiej historiografii

German politics against colonies has been significantly modified for over two centuries of its history. In the first period, from the end of the 17th to the end of 19th century, its character can be described as economical. To win the market for the products of their industry, German traders set up merchant posts. This situation changed in 19th century, when the other European countries started to set up their colonies in Africa, gaining wider and wider ground and exploiting them without scruples. Germany, to keep abreast, joined the race for the ground and profits. Up to the end of the First World War German officials and soldiers tried to make the local people subservient, treating them like the narrow-minded and primitive, and destroying their culture and tradition. However their oft-cruel practices stayed in the general trends of the attitude European countries against their colonies and aborigines.