NationalSocialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism the German philologist Carl Peters He is at the end of the 1900s a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony Without support from Germany he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony But Jewish and SocialDemocrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign