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  • Vedder, Heinrich,
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  • Veldschoendrager Nama,
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  • Veldskoendraers,
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  • Verschuer, Otmar von,
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  • Versailles, Treaty of (1919),
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  • Vogelsang, Heinrich,
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  • Voigts, Gustav,
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  • Völkisch movement,
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  • Völkischer Beobachter (newspaper),
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  • Wagner, Gerhard,
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  • Waldersee, Alfred von,
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  • Walker, Dr Henry,
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  • Walvis Bay,
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  • Warmbad,
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  • Warthegau,
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  • Wasserfall, Georg,
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  • Waterberg,
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  • Waterberg, battle of the (1904),
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  • Weimar,
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  • West German Society for Colonisation and Export,
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  • Westernhagen, Lieutenant von,
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  • Wieczorek-Zeul, Heidemarie,
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  • Wiesenthal, Simon,
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  • wildlife,
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  • Wilhelm II, Kaiser: replaces Bismarck with con Caprivi,
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    • caught up in controversy over Witbooi treaty,
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    • close friends,
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    • and Boxer Rebellion,
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    • reaction to Bondelswart killing of Schutztruppe officer,
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    • and German-Herero War,
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    • reaction to Extermination Order,
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    • commissions Stillfried Report,
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    • acquits Stillfried of unlawfully bringing Herero ‘servant’ back to Germany,
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    • honours von Trotha,
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    • appropriates all indigene land in South-West Africa,
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    • believes can win World War I,
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    • promotes von Lettow-Vorbeck,
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    • exile in Holland after war,
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  • Wilhelm’s Fort,
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  • Wilson, Woodrow,
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  • Windhoek: Germans settle,
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    • Witbooi Nama raid,
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    • railway,
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    • German frustrations fan flames of racial hatred there,
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    • unveiling of Rider Statue,
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    • transformation into simulacrum of European city,
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    • numbers of registered businesses,
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    • South Africans capture during World War I,
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    • Nazi sympathies,
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    • police kill anti-Apartheid demonstrators,
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    • modern racial and ethnic integration,
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  • Windhoek concentration camp,
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  • Wissmann, Hermann,
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  • Witbooi, Hendrik: background and character,
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    • war with Herero,
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    • rejects idea of German protection treaty,
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    • deals with German gold prospectors,
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    • opposition to Germans,
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    • and Hoornkrans massacre,
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    • daughter enslaved by Germans,
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    • increases resistance to Germans,
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    • forced into German treaty after attack on Naukluft Mountains,
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    • wealth,
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    • and German-Nama War,
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    • diaries captured by Germans,
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    • limitations as leader for colonised people,
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    • death,
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    • modern descendants,
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  • Witbooi, Hendrik Samuel,
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  • Witbooi, Izaak,
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  • Witbooi, Klein Hendrik,
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  • Witbooi, Peter,
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  • Witbooi (White Boys) Nama: origins of name,
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    • war with Herero,
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    • reject German offer of protection
      treaty,
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    • call on Herero to unite against Germans,
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    • opposition to Germans leads to Hoornkrans massacre,
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    • peace with Herero,
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    • substantial resistance to Germans,
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    • forced into German treaty after attack on Naukluft Mountains,
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    • visit Berlin to take part in Colonial Show,
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    • native reserve established,
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    • compelled to serve Germans during German-Herero War,
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    • war against Germans,
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    • sent to concentration camps,
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    • Germans consider unfit for labour,
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    • German ‘final solution’,
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    • eighty deported to Togo,
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    • numbers exterminated by Germans,
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    • treatment of survivors,
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    • incarcerated survivors released by South Africans,
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    • veterans fight in war for Namibian independence,
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    • life nowadays,
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    • memorialisation of genocide,
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  • Witzenhausen German Colonial School,
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  • Woermann, Adolf,
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  • Woermann trading and shipping company,
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  • Woermann Brock Company,
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  • Wolf (gunboat),
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  • World War I (1914–18): in Africa,
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    • Eastern Front,
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    • German colonialism in Europe,
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    • Western Front,
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  • World War II (1939–45): German colonialism,
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    • Operation Barbarossa,
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    • socialist view of hypocrisy of,
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  • Wyk, Hermanus van,
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  • Zeraua, Barmenias,
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  • Zeraua, Katherine,
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  • Zhytomyr,
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  • Zülow, Commander von,
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  • Zürn, Lieutenant Ralph,
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David Olusoga is an Anglo-Nigerian historian and producer. Working across radio and television, his programmes have explored the themes of colonialism, slavery and scientific racism. He has travelled extensively in Africa, and has been drawn to Namibia and its troubled history for several years. He currently works as a producer for the BBC.

   

Born in Denmark, Casper W Erichsen has lived in Africa for the last 14 years. He obtained both his degrees in History at the University of Namibia, devoting much of his scholarship to the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples. He is currently the Director of a Namibian NGO dealing with HIV and AIDS.

First published in 2010
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Herero Chief Tjamuaha KaMaharero and his council in the pre-colonial era.

The Bondelswarts Nama leadership photographed in 1876 in their home town of Warmbad.

 

Chief Samuel Maharero, who led the Herero nation in their war against the German colonisers.

Germany’s nemesis, Hendrik Witbooi, Kaptein of the Witbooi Nama, photographed in the 1890s.

Heinrich Ernst Göring, father of Hitler’s deputy Hermann Göring and the first Imperial Commissioner of German South-West Africa.

Curt von François, the ruthless ‘soldier of darkness’ who led the first colonial force to German South-West Africa.

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