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You're right, these mansions in the desert are a very strange topic. They were built after 1908 by the German colonists. They had no idea about the climate in the desert, so they built the houses in the same style like at home.
And this is a very strange thing for us Germans, to see all this typical old-style typical German houses (an the other stuff, too, down to the glass-bottles) far away in the African desert.
The history of German colonization is much smaller, compared with the English, French and even Spanish, so for us it's absolutely strange to see "our" old stuff (or old regulations or behaviour) far away on annother continent.
At least, nowadays only in Namibia this will happen. In the other former colonies nearly nothing is left. The most popular reminiscence of German colonization is the Tsingtao-brewery in China.
And this is a very strange thing for us Germans, to see all this typical old-style typical German houses (an the other stuff, too, down to the glass-bottles) far away in the African desert.
The history of German colonization is much smaller, compared with the English, French and even Spanish, so for us it's absolutely strange to see "our" old stuff (or old regulations or behaviour) far away on annother continent.
At least, nowadays only in Namibia this will happen. In the other former colonies nearly nothing is left. The most popular reminiscence of German colonization is the Tsingtao-brewery in China.