Herero uprising
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The Herero and Nama War is the collective term for a series of interlinked, anti-colonial armed struggles by native peoples in German South West Africa, mainly the Herero and Nama people, against the
German troops in combat with the Herero in a painting by Richard Knötel.
Theodor Leutwein toasting Hendrik Witbooi in 1896
Samuel Maharero, Herero paramount chief
German garrison of Windhoek, besieged by the Herero, 1904
Herero and Nama genocide
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The Herero and Nama genocide, or the Namibian genocide, was the extermination of the Herero and the Nama people in German South West Africa perpetrated by the German Empire between 1904 and 1908. Arou
Herero uprising
…V. by Thomas Pynchon. The tragic story of the Herero and Nama Genocide also appears in Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow. The heavy toll of the Herero and Nama genocide on individual lives and the fabric of Herero culture is seen in the 2013 historical novel Mama Namibia by Mari Serebrov. The war and the massacres are…
Chained Herero and Nama prisoners during the genocide
Central figure Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha, the Oberbefehlshaber (Supreme Commander) of the protection force in German South West Africa, in Keetmanshoop during the Herero uprising, 1904
The terrain near Waterberg mountain in Namibia where the decisive battle was fought