Among the many trophies the Germans seized from the former British Empire, Lusaka was the administrative center of the Northern Rhodesian colonial government during the interwar period. Formerly a developing bureaucratic hub within the British African possessions, Hüttig transformed this place into the plaything of his cohort, a land of visions and opportunities built from bloodshed.

Lusaka's birth was the product of Rhodesia's early expansion of the state railway system, which brought many miners to the northern copper mining sites and led to the development of a settlement around the path's center as an access point and water station. While the early settlers were an assortment of Afrikaner farmers seeking work, the town's status grew more significant following the transfer of Northern Rhodesia to the Crown from the BSACo — which prompted the administration to designate the fledgling city as the new capital after deeming the southern Livingstone to be of poor communications and soundness.

The project to migrate all of Rhodes' infrastructure and systems to Lusaka proved to be a slow and sporadic process. Unprofitability and a lack of funding from London plagued the plan since its conception, compounded by high investor pullouts resulting in a reliance on loans. Despite these obstacles, for a short period around the Second World War, the region became temporarily revitalized by the surge of material extraction required for Britain's war production — but this pipe dream faded as the mainland forces fell to the German invaders.

The Lusaka earned by the Reich was a half-finished project that bore incomplete endeavors and many dreams — the same ones that will serve their new master to the dying breaths.