SMS Leipzig was a German flush-deck steam corvette, the lead ship of the Leipzig class, named after the 1813 Battle of Leipzig. She was built for the Kaiserliche Marine in the 1870s, being laid down in early 1875, launched in September that year, and commissioned into the fleet in May 1877. She had one sister ship, SMS Prinz Adalbert. Intended for long cruises abroad, the ship was fitted with a full ship rig to supplement her steam engine if coal was unavailable. She carried a battery of twelve 17 cm (6.7 in) guns.
Illustration of Leipzig by Fritz Stoltenberg
Leipzig with the frigate Elisabeth and the corvette Ariadne off Nicaragua in March 1878
German South West Africa was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 until 1915, though Germany did not officially recognise its loss of this territory until the 1919 Treaty of Versailles.
European settlers in German Southwest Africa, c. 1911.
Four German soldiers in a Camel-Schutztruppe patrol, 1906
Nama POWs in 1900
Image: Erichsen Abused San or Nama child prisoners p. 52 v 2