Tansania. Maji-Maji-Aufstand

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:12]At the end of the 19th century, Africa was divided between European empires, which mercilessly oppressed the indigenous population. Modern-day Tanzania used to be a German colony.

[00:00:25]The Germans levied heavy taxes on local tribes and used them as free labor on cotton plantations.

[00:00:33]The peasants' protest turned into an uprising against the colonialists under the banner of the religious movement of the Maji Maji.

[00:00:42]It was led by a man named Kinjikitile.

[00:00:46]The rebels used guerrilla tactics because they did not have the power to crush the German army in head-on confrontation.

[00:00:54]But the Germans were not able to suppress the resistance of the guerrillas, either.

[00:01:00]So, the invaders decided to starve the population to death.

[00:01:04]One of the commanders of the German troops, Captain Wangenheim, wrote, "Only hunger and want can lead to final submission.

[00:01:12]Military actions alone will remain more or less a drop in the ocean."

[00:01:17]The blasphemous plan worked. The invaders burned villages and fields. In 2 years, Germany deliberately starved up to 300,000 people to death. Later, the monstrous experience of the Second Reich in Tanzania was copied by the Third Reich, led by the Nazis, in order to extirpate the peoples of Europe.