User blog:ANIMALGAMINGXzero/The lion of german east africa

Hello This is gonna be a thing where I tell you about someone and what they did and you decide if they were a villain evil or if they were a hero today's person is Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck nicknamed the lion of German East Africa he joined the army in 1890 he first saw combat in the boxer rebellion in China the Boxers where an anti European group in China called so because many members were trained in boxing and other fighting styles and China helped wanting to stop European power so was not much of a rebellion but leaders in Southern China fought China and the boxers joining the Anti boxer alliance which had Netherlands Russia Italy United States Austria Hungary Germany Japan France United kingdom    The war ended with the boxer's being crushed and Paul was moved to German East Africa.You see Germany was trying to start a colonial empire and they were rebellions beginning a large one that Paul fought in was Herero war Paul was a massive racist and wanted white power in German East Africa it resulted in 70,000 natives being killed we wanted to destroy farms to make the people starve anyways he would not be in combat until the outbreak of world war one now he broke the congo agreement it was agreed no combat would be in Africa and he tried to invade modern day Kenya his forces were outnumbered and would get no support from germany because of the congo agreement after massive victories he retreated to the south near portugese east africa this was okay until portugal entered the war in 1916 and belgium had forces in congo which were ready to help in the war which meant he was boxed in by enemy forces but he lead German forces to more massive victories like the Battle of Mahiwa he surrendered a few weeks after hearing Germany surrendered he surrendered in late november he returned to germany and fought Left wing rebels in germany but then he joined right wing rebellions and lost his title as a general in 1920 he later was offered a part in the government by Adolf Hitler but Paul hated him and what he stood for and said "go F*** yourself" to Adolf Hitler in person sorry i dont have time to say more good things about him i will tomorrow if i have time so was he a hero fighting for Germany or a Villain because everybody think their country is the hero.