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An Italian postcard map of central and southern Africa with insets for New Guinea and Kiautschau, China, with the colonies of Italy, Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, Germany, and Belgium.
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Il tramonto dell'impero coloniale tedesco The sunset of the German colonial empire

An Italian postcard map of central and southern Africa with insets for New Guinea and Kiautschau, China, with the colonies of Italy, Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, Germany, and Belgium.

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Il tramonto dell'impero coloniale tedesco The sunset of the German colonial empire

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