Elo Sambo (1885-1933) was a Cameroonian who served in the Imperial German Army in World War I, notable for being one of very few Africans to do so.
While serving on the Eastern Front he became wounded and after recuperating joined the German effort with its ally, the Ottoman Empire.
[2] The former German Kaiser Wilhelm II, German Emperor, who abdicated in 1918, was able to use his contacts to get Sambo a job Den Linden in a baby blue uniform as a "taxicab man" at the prestigious Berlin hotel, Hotel Adlon.
[1] The paper noted Sambo "is a great linguist and speaks fluent German, even rolling his R's in German fashion.
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