I'm currently reading "A Broken World" by Sontag and he mentions that the German colonies were distributed to the Allies after the Treaty of Versailles. What colonies did Germany possess?
The German colonial empire was comparatively small: Tanzania, Namibia, Togo, Camaroon, and several Pacific islands. Here's a map, from Wikipedia. Germany was a latecomer to the colonial game, largely because it only unified into a single nation in 1870, after most other powers already had extensive empires.
