Herero people
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The Herero are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa. 178,987 Namibians identified as Ovaherero in the 2023 census. They speak Otjiherero, a Bantu language. Though the Herero primar
Herero women
Herero woman in traditional dress.
Herero, at the end of the 19th century
Omuti-ngau-zepo (The tree must be removed) in Otjinene from which many Herero people were hanged to death.
Gravity's Rainbow
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Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon. The narrative is set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by
Herero people
…A group of Herero living in Germany who were inducted into the German military during the Second World War play a major part in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. The genocide under von Trotha plays a major role in another novel by the same author, V.. German author Uwe Timm's novel Morenga, set in German southwest…
First edition cover design
A 1945 U.S. Army diagram of the V-2 rocket
This May 3, 1945 image of Wernher von Braun (center right) is referred to in the narrative, giving a quite exact timeframe for some events in the book.
An underground tunnel at Mittelwerk in 1945