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society. He is a Member of the Immigration Advisory Board of South Africa, and an Advocate of the High Court.
SUITABLE FOR
Academics and scholars of Migration Law, South African and African Studies, Migration Studies and South African history.
Germany’s Genocide of the Herero
Kaiser Wilhelm II, his general, his settlers, his soldiers
J SARKIN
In 1884 today’s Namibia was declared a German colony: German South West Africa. When the indigenous Herero people rebelled in 1904 the colonisers retaliated with utmost brutality that caused the most egregious human rights catastrophe. An extermination order (Vernichtungsbefehl) was issued. In a very short time, between 60,000 and 100,000 Herero people, almost all civilians, including many women and children, were killed by bullets, clubs, hanging, or fire. Many were forced into the desert to die by starvation, thirst or by drinking water from poisoned water wells. Thousands were condemned to slavery in concentration camps with a very high mortality rate. Herero women were forced to become ‘comfort women.’
Germany’s Genocide of the Herero argues that the genocide was not the work of a rogue army general or the practices of the German military in general, but resulted from German colonial policy. It suggests that causal factors included the colony’s status as ‘New Germany’, which precluded the option of military, economic or social failure; the desire to acquire Herero land and cattle, rebuild German pride and fulfil Germany’s racist ideology; and an order from the Kaiser himself.
SUITABLE FOR
Academics and the lay reader interested in human rights, history, comparative and historical law, as well as colonialism, Africa, historical human rights violations, German and Namibian history and reparations.
978 1 91989 547 5 978 1 77582 172 4 2011
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ZAR R471.00 ZAR R440.00
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