| German West Africa: German Cameroon, German South-West Africa, Togoland, Windhoek, Herero and Namaqua Genocide, Otjiwarongo, Warmbad, Nami Contributor(s): Source Wikipedia (Author), Books, LLC (Editor), Books, LLC (Created by) |
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ISBN: 1156142792 ISBN-13: 9781156142790 Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series OUR PRICE: $14.85 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2011 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
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| Publisher Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: German Cameroon, German South-West Africa, Togoland, Windhoek, Herero and Namaqua Genocide, Otjiwarongo, Warmbad, Namibia, Agadir Crisis, Kamerun, Otavi Mining and Railway Company, Gustav Nachtigal, South-West Africa Campaign, List of colonial heads of German Cameroon, Seeheim, Pomona, Namibia, August Stauch, Neukamerun, Treaty of Fez, Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty, Dume district, Hans Tappenbeck, List of colonial heads of German Togoland, German campaign in Angola, Ossidinge, German West African Company, Gaston Thierry, Postage stamps and postal history of German South-West Africa, Adolf Luderitz, Angra Pequena, Battle of Maroua-Miskin, Salaga Area, Grasplatz, Iwindo, Morocco-Congo Treaty, German South West African mark, Ober-Logone. Excerpt: The Herero and Namaqua Genocide is considered the first genocide of the 20th century. It occurred from 1904 until 1907 in German South-West Africa (modern day Namibia), during the scramble for Africa. On January 12, 1904, the Herero people, led by Samuel Maharero, rebelled against German colonial rule. In August, German general Lothar von Trotha defeated the Herero in the Battle of Waterberg and drove them into the desert of Omaheke, where most of them died of thirst. In October, the Nama people also rebelled against the Germans only to suffer a similar fate. In total, between 24,000 up to 100,000 Herero perished along with 10,000 Nama. The genocide was characterized by widespread death by starvation and thirst by preventing the fled Herero from returning from the Namib Desert. Some sources also claim that the German colonial army systematically poisoned desert wells. In 1985, the United Nations' Whitaker Report classified the aftermath as an attempt to exterminate the Herero and Nama peoples of South-West Africa, and therefore one of the earliest attempts of genocide in the 20th... |
