[colorado tanker]

Yes, that was Tanzania, although back then it also included Burundi and Rwanda. After WWI the British took Tanganyika from the Germans and then hived off Rwanda and Burundi and gave them to the Belgians as a consolation prize.

The African Queen was about escaping German East Africa after WWI started. And the Germans really had a small navy on the lakes.

[kearnyirish2]

I know they were unable to hold the few colonies they had due to the British navy (on the seas); in West Africa they lost what is today Namibia, and in the Pacific they lost the Caroline Islands. Like Italy they were late to the colonizing game, both countries only being born themselves in 1871.