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My grandfather had a soft spot for the Germans after WW1
More than one million people died in East Africa during WW1, as the British and German Empires battled each other away from the muddy fields of Europe.
(Photo:Locally-recruited troops under German command in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, then part of German East Africa, circa 1914)
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