The German government had no time to wrangle with East Africa, because German troops had already marched into Belgium. Germany's upper ranks were now wholly focused on the war.
Thus, Germany's overseas colonies, covering nearly one million square kilometers, fell into East Africa's hands. Under East Africa's influence, Germany's colonial ventures in this life could be said to have become even more arduous, each step harder than the last. In the previous life, Germany's overseas colonies had totaled 2.59 million square kilometers; now, they did not even reach half that figure.
To put it bluntly, the economic value of Germany's Tanzanian colony alone in the previous life exceeded the combined value of all Germany's current overseas colonies.
Take the Central African colony, for instance. This was already Germany's most presentable colony, yet tropical rainforest alone accounted for more than eighty percent of its total area, making development extremely difficult.
After all, it lay in a typical tropical rainforest climate zone. The equator ran straight through German Central Africa, while Germany's second-largest colony, German New Guinea, was also near the equator. Its geographical location was abysmal; not to mention Germany, even to East Africa it was a place where not even birds would shit.
Other than Africa, Germany's remaining colonies were basically scattered across the Pacific islands near Oceania.
Germany's colonial distribution alone revealed its cramped and humiliating position among the great colonial powers. To put it harshly, virtually every overseas territory Germany had acquired before had been scraps from the scraps England and France had tossed aside—not even worthy of being called scraps. No wonder Germany was dissatisfied with the current division of the world order.
Compared with the gloom hanging over European nations after the outbreak of the Great War, East Africa was beaming with joy. Before the