At Kyffhäuser on the northern border of Thuringia in Germany lies a giant modern monument to the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I (“Barbarossa”), also the site of an ancient astronomical observatory. This image was published more or less at the height of the Second Reich’s modest colonial ventures in Africa.
“I miss the edginess in my dear old empire. It smells so much like Congo sleeping sickness.”
(Kladderadatsch, Berlin, 1911)
Sic Transit Pestilentia 