Naulila. Erinnerungen eines Zeitgenossen, limited edition - SIGNED, extremely scare!

Naulila. Erinnerungen eines Zeitgenossen

BY Max E. Baericke Naulila, 

Reprint edition, Limited and numbered edition, full leather hard cover, this is number 61 of 100 copies, and SIGNED from the last survivor of the regiment, Naulila, the former non-commissioned officer D. R. H Pleitz, minimum wear, previoua owner name on sticker,  good condition, 

This edition reprinted by the Gesellschaft fur Wissenschaftliche Entwicklung und Museum, 1981, Text in German. 118 pages and pull-out map at rear. 

Naulila is a town in Cunene Province in southern Angola, located on the Cunene River which separates Angola and Namibia. Naulila was the scene of fighting between Portuguese Angola and German South West Africa during the early stages of World War I. On 19 October 1914, a German military column crossed the border and entered Angola without authorization from the Portuguese authorities. The column was intercepted by Portuguese forces and conducted to Fort Naulila. At Naulila, a dispute occurred between the Portuguese and the Germans which resulted in the death of three German officers. On 31 October, the Germans under the command of Oswald Ostermann retaliated, and raided the Portuguese fort at Cuangar, destroying the fort and killing all stationed border guards with machine-guns. This was later referred to as the "Cuangar Massacre". On 18/19 December, Victor Franke led a successful retaliatory attack, defeating the Portuguese at Naulila. There is a monument and a cemetery in the town of Outjo, commemorating German losses in the incidents at Naulila in 1914.