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World Service,1 min
My grandfather had a soft spot for the Germans after WW1
The War That Changed the WorldAvailable for over a year
More than one million people died in East Africa during WW1, as the British and German Empires battled each other away from the muddy fields of Europe. (Photo:Locally-recruited troops under German command in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, then part of German East Africa, circa 1914) (Credit: Getty Images)
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