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Germany’s colonial history is rather short. All the more contradictive are the legends and controversies that have formed around it. What did the Germans really do abroad? A historical report featuring never before published footage. Premonitions of Germany’s short colonial adventure date back to the seventeenth century. But only with the arrival of the missionaries, traders, great scientific explorers of the nineteenth century, and the founding of the German Reich in 1871, the cry for "a place in the sun" grew louder in Germany. Other European superpowers had had overseas-territories for quite some time. Chancellor Bismarck eventually agreed to establish so-called protectorates in Africa, China and the Pacific area.