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Epochs, topics or persons: On this page you will find research guides to help you research specific topics in the Federal Archives.

  • Wilhelm Solf, State Secretary of the Imperial Colonial Office, and Karl Ebermaier, Governor of Cameroon, and representatives of the Haussa population of Yaoundé, 1913
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    Sources on Colonial History

    Were the borders in Africa drawn from a bureaucratic ivory tower? What did the execution order in the Herero War really look like? In which Chinese city were…

  • Wreckage of a US bomber near Oschersleben in July 1944
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    The fate of downed airplanes and their crews in the Second World War 


    The following information applies to British, US, Canadian and Soviet aircraft that were shot down in the European theatre of war by units of the German…