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Namibia. German South West Africa ( German: Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 [1] until 1915, [2] though Germany did not officially recognise its loss of this territory until the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. German rule over this territory was punctuated by numerous rebellions by its native African peoples, which ...
Sep 19, 2023 · The Road to Genocide. An illustration of German troops slaughtering Herero rebels, via Deutsche Welle. Before South West Africa was even officially declared a German crown colony, the local people resented German occupation. The first uprising of the Nama people began in 1893 and was led by Henry Witbooi.
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In World War I (1914–18) the German defense forces in the colony were forced to capitulate on July 9, 1915, to South African forces numerically 10 times their superior. In 1919 South West Africa was mandated by the League of Nations to South Africa. South West Africa remained under South African control until it attained independence in 1990 ...
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May 28, 2021 · Namibia’s liberation party — South West Africa People’s Organization, or Swapo — took over and governs to this day. Swapo is dominated by the country’s main ethnic group, the Ovambo.
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Jun 29, 2015 · 29 October, The Nama attack a German food transport near Vaalgras. Hendrik Witbooi is shot in the leg. He eventually dies from blood loss. He is buried in an unmarked grave. November, General Lothar von Trotha finally leaves South West Africa. The new Governor, Friederich von Lindequist, arrives to take his place.
Mar 18, 2019 · S. Kuss, German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence, tr. A. Smith (Cambridge, MA, 2017), pp. 2–3.Cf. B. Madley, ‘From Africa to Auschwitz: How German South-West Africa Incubated Ideas and Methods Adopted and Developed by the Nazis in Eastern Europe’, European History Quarterly, xxxiii (2005), pp. 429–64; J. Zimmerer, ‘Die Geburt des “Ostlandes” aus dem Geiste des ...
German South-West Africa was a colony of the German Empire between 1884 and 1915. This was when it was taken over by Union of South Africa as part of the British Empire and administered as South-West Africa, and then finally becoming Namibia in 1990. Early History of the Region On November 16, 1882, Adolf Luderitz,
