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The Herero and Nama genocide or Namibian genocide, [5] formerly known also as the Herero and Namaqua genocide, was a campaign of ethnic extermination and collective punishment which was waged against the Herero (Ovaherero) and the Nama in German South West Africa (now Namibia) by the German Empire.
In 1890, the colony was declared a German Crown Colony, and more troops were sent. [7] In July of the same year, as part of the Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty between Britain and Germany, the colony grew in size through the acquisition of the Caprivi Strip in the northeast, promising new trade routes into the interior.
A history of resistance in Namibia (London: James Currey, 1988) excerpt. Kössler, Reinhart. "Entangled history and politics: Negotiating the past between Namibia and Germany." Journal of contemporary African studies 26.3 (2008): 313–339. online; Kössler, Reinhart. "Images of History and the Nation: Namibia and Zimbabwe compared."
In the early 1880s, the German statesman Otto von Bismarck, reversing his previous rejection of colonial acquisitions, decided on a policy of imperial expansion.In 1882 Bismarck gave permission to Adolf Lüderitz to obtain lands which Germany would bring within its "protection", under the conditions that a port was established within the territories taken and that there was "clear title" to ...
Heinrich Ernst Göring (31 October 1839 – 7 December 1913) was a German jurist and diplomat who served as colonial governor of German South West Africa.He was the father of five children including Hermann Göring, the Nazi leader and commander of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force).
Imperial German Postal Agency in Zanzibar with its staff (1890). Germany gained the islands of Heligoland (German: Helgoland) in the North Sea, originally possession of the dukes of Holstein-Gottorp but since 1814 a British possession, the so-called Caprivi Strip in what is now Namibia, and a free hand to control and acquire the coast of Dar es Salaam that would form the core of German East ...
The Kaiser’s Holocaust: Germany’s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism. Faber & Faber, 2010. Gewald, Jan-Bart. Herero Heroes: A Socio-Political History of the Herero of Namibia 1890–1923, James Currey, Oxford, 1999. Lau, Brigitte. History and Historiography: 4 essays in reprint, Discourse/MSORP, Windhoek, May, 1995.
Germany officially claimed their stake in a South African colony in 1884, calling it German South West Africa until it was taken over in 1915. The first German colonists arrived in 1892, and conflict with the indigenous Herero and Nama people began. As in many cases of colonization, the indigenous people were not treated fairly. [17]: 31 [18]