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Carl Peters
Carl Peters was a German colonial explorer and the founder of the German East Africa Company. In 1884 he made treaties with chiefs inland from the Zanzibar coast, which Germany placed under imperial protection in 1885. Later an imperial commissioner at Kilimanjaro, he was dismissed in 1897 for his brutal treatment of Africans, including executions.
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