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As a unified nation only after 1871, Germany was a latecomer to imperial competition. It acquired German Southwest Africa (modern Namibia), German East Africa (modern Tanzania and parts of Burundi and Rwanda), Togo, and Cameroon. In 1904-1908 Germany conducted what historians now call the Herero and Nama Genocide in Southwest Africa, killing perhaps 80,000 people.
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