Gone with the Wind

Kolmanskop, the former German diamond mining settlement in South West Africa, now Namibia, is a ghost town and museum. During the final phase of the German Empire, the place was full of life, an outpost of the German way of life in Africa - Kaiser Wilhelm's dream of a German Kimberley. The meteoric rise began in 1908 when a railway worker found the first diamond in the desert sand. The small town ...