the Herero and Namaqua genocide

Examples of the Herero and Namaqua genocide in the following topics:

• Namibia

  • Until about 2,000 years ago, the original hunters and gatherers of the San people were the only inhabitants in Namibia, but around that time, the Nama (also known as Namaqua), the Khoikhoi, and the Hottentots settled around the Orange River in the south, on the border between Namibia and South Africa, where they kept herds of sheep and goats.
  • During German occupation of this region, about one third of the population was wiped out in a genocide that continues to provoke historical and political debates.
  • Known as the Herero and Namaqua genocide, it was a campaign of racial extermination and collective punishment.
  • It is considered one of the first genocides of the 20th century, taking place between 1904 and 1907 during the Herero Wars.
  • Eventually, warfare over land control between the Herero and the Oorlams, as well as between the two of them and the Damara, who were the original inhabitants of the area, broke out.

• The Holocaust

  • The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews during World War II.
  • Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories, with Nazi-occupied Poland constituting the geographical hub of the genocide.
  • The Nazis used the phrase "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" and the formula "Final Solution" has been widely used as a term for the genocide of the Jews.
  • The first medical experimentation on humans and ethnic cleansing by Germans took place in the death camps of German South-West Africa during the Herero and Namaqua Genocide (1904-07).
  • In many other genocides, pragmatic considerations such as control of territory and resources were central to the genocide policy.