a Nazi Germany with colonies

"Start committing" atrocities? Do you assume the German colonists would have stopped at eleven in the morning of 11 November 1918?

The OP asked for the "Final Solution" which really didn't begin until mid-1942, or mid-1941 if you want to consider the Einsatzgruppen's activities in Eastern Europe.

The OP asked would the "Final Solution" be tested in Africa, implying that this will be before that of our timeline.
 
Yes. Even having colonies, he would want Lebensraum - in Eastern Europe. The point is that this isn't reason enough for him to decide he's going to dump the colonies. Remember his attitude when it came to relinquishing any territory. At the very least, a colony can be a good way to distract the enemy in the upcoming war. A Südwest Afrika? For as long as the South Africans can be kept at bay, it's a fine base for U-Boote to cripple the Cape route, that's what he'd think.

The best harbor in Sudwest Afrika was British...
 
The best harbor in Sudwest Afrika was British...

An U-Boote replenishment base can be built virtually anywhere, as shown in OTL. The point is just having a piece of friendly land and a stash of fuel and torpedoes.
In any case, the dynamics I'd expect is that first the British base is overrun by the Germans, and then German South-West Africa is overrun by South Africans. Sort of British Somaliland. The Italians eventually lost East Africa, but not without having taken and held British Somaliland for a while.
 
An U-Boote replenishment base can be built virtually anywhere, as shown in OTL. The point is just having a piece of friendly land and a stash of fuel and torpedoes.
In any case, the dynamics I'd expect is that first the British base is overrun by the Germans, and then German South-West Africa is overrun by South Africans. Sort of British Somaliland. The Italians eventually lost East Africa, but not without having taken and held British Somaliland for a while.

That makes sense. Regardless, Sudwest Afrika could serve several functions for the Germans.
 
I have a hard time getting my mind wrapped around this. As has been said by others, it is hard to imagine Germany retaining its African colonies unless they came out ahead in WW1, they lost but got a very favorable peace, or there was no WW1. One almost has to imagine that a Nazi-like movement arose out of Wilhemine Germany without the trauma of WW1 - which I suppose might be possible given the general way 20th century mass movements screwed everything up.

Assuming Germany became "Nazi" in 1933 in the situation described above, the retention of colonies may not be a big emotional issue for the Nazis. Having not "lost" them, there might be far less public and Nazi interest in keeping them - especially if they could be used to buy off other nations (the UK and France, mainly) in exchange for a more favorable attitude toward Germany's aims in the east.
 
I have a hard time getting my mind wrapped around this.

Well, me too. But since I very often react with a "no, that's impossible", I've just chosen to run with the premise here.

Assuming Germany became "Nazi" in 1933 in the situation described above, the retention of colonies may not be a big emotional issue for the Nazis. Having not "lost" them, there might be far less public and Nazi interest in keeping them - especially if they could be used to buy off other nations (the UK and France, mainly) in exchange for a more favorable attitude toward Germany's aims in the east.

Well, here's where I'll say "no way". Neither the British nor the French need another piece of basically worthless real estate, and both don't like to see a superpower Germany sitting astride most of Europe.
 
I have a hard time getting my mind wrapped around this. As has been said by others, it is hard to imagine Germany retaining its African colonies unless they came out ahead in WW1,.

In 1919 Woodrow Wilson wanted to give back all of Germany's former colonies, if the USA had played a larger role in the last year of the war it is possible that Wilson's views may have had more impact and then this speculation wouldn't seem so far fetched.

As for the effects, I doubt there would be too many Africans left alive by 1933 anyway. The African population of Tanzania welcomed the British invasion and by 1918 most of the volunteers serving in the Kings African Rifles came from German East Africa (Tanzania) and that included soldiers who had deserted the Garmany's African army in 1915 & 1916 and joined the British. These soldiers and all civilians who welcomed the British would be considered traitors and the fate of a traitor would have been a fireing squad. When the German Officers fighting in Africa realised what was happening they declared to their troops that when the war was over all traitors would be executed.
 
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