Jürgen Ellinghaus
Every year the War Cemetery Memorial of Wahala in Togo hosts the 11th November Remembrance Day Ceremony which recalls the end of World War I. The first German surrender of WWI was signed on the soil of the Reich's Togoland colony in August 1914, subsequently to the battle of Chra. It marked de facto...
Jürgen Ellinghaus
Every two years, the small town of Beverungen, somewhere in the middle of Germany, celebrates its traditional Marksmen's Festival. In 2008, Beverungen has the honour of hosting the annual festival of the “Confederation of Historical German Marksmen's Brotherhoods" with thousands of participants com...
Jürgen Ellinghaus
From 1884 to 1914, a small belt of land between the British Gold Coast Colony and French-governed Dahomey was part of the German overseas empire. "Togoland" - 100 years later: fragments of a colonial legacy......