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I have tried to create a stub here with basic information. Could a German speaker please correct any mistakes and add further links/information. --Shehzadashiq (talk) 00:28, 8 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"German camp"

What was a "German camp" doing in Nigeria? Unfortunately the German text doesn't help, as it simply uses the English word "Camp" (nouns in German begin with a capital letter) - "in einem deutschen Camp" - without any further explanation. And, with all due respect, the phrase "German camp" has inevitably had unsavoury connotations since the 1930s. I'd also be surprised to find that the Nigerian authorities allowed Germans to live there in any kind of "camp", complete with a German school (which instead suggests proper buildings rather than tents). And living in tents in a violence-prone country like Nigeria, with its numerous wild animals, seems the height of foolhardiness. There were of course European expatriate communities in Lagos, who (as elsewhere in Africa and also in Asia) probably lived in guarded "compounds" to protect them from robbery and violence. I suspect "Camp" is itself a mistranslation of "compound", and that whoever "auto-translated" this used a translation machine that couldn't make head or tail of "Camp" in a German text and simply left it as it stood (in the usual manner of translation machines). The Dutch version of the article doesn't help either, as it is much shorter and makes no mention of Bachmeier's time in Africa. I really feel that people should avoid posting uncorrected "auto-translations" of Wikipedia articles in languages they don't know well. And as the use of "Camp" suggests, even the German text may not be reliable.89.212.50.177 (talk) 11:34, 27 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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 I have tried to create a stub here with basic information. Could a German speaker please correct any mistakes and add further links/information.
 --[[User:Shehzadashiq|Shehzadashiq]] ([[User talk:Shehzadashiq|talk]]) 00:28, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
+== "German camp" ==
+What was a "German camp" doing in Nigeria? Unfortunately the German text doesn't help, as it simply uses the English word "Camp" (nouns in German begin with a capital letter) - "in einem deutschen Camp" - without any further explanation. And, with all due respect, the phrase "German camp" has inevitably had unsavoury connotations since the 1930s. I'd also be surprised to find that the Nigerian authorities allowed Germans to live there in any kind of "camp", complete with a German school (which instead suggests proper buildings rather than tents). And living in tents in a violence-prone country like Nigeria, with its numerous wild animals, seems the height of foolhardiness. There were of course European expatriate communities in Lagos, who (as elsewhere in Africa and also in Asia) probably lived in guarded "compounds" to protect them from robbery and violence. I suspect "Camp" is itself a mistranslation of "compound", and that whoever "auto-translated" this used a translation machine that couldn't make head or tail of "Camp" in a German text and simply left it as it stood (in the usual manner of translation machines). The Dutch version of the article doesn't help either, as it is much shorter and makes no mention of Bachmeier's time in Africa.
+I really feel that people should avoid posting uncorrected "auto-translations" of Wikipedia articles in languages they don't know well. And as the use of "Camp" suggests, even the German text may not be reliable.[[Special:Contributions/89.212.50.177|89.212.50.177]] ([[User talk:89.212.50.177|talk]]) 11:34, 27 September 2018 (UTC)