Summary
The genocide German colonial occupiers perpetrated in southwest Africa in response to an uprising by the Indigenous Herero and Nama populations, which Segal gives as the exception to perpetrators’ usual silence about intent, beside Yoav Gallant’s October 2023 orders (A Textbook Case of Genocide, line 78).
Details
- In 1904 Lothar von Trotha, the German military commander, issued an “extermination order”, justified by the rationale of a “race war” (line 78).
- By 1908, Segal states, the German authorities had murdered 10,000 Nama, and had achieved their stated goal of “destroying the Herero”, killing 65,000 Herero, 80% of the population (line 78).
Related pages
A Textbook Case of Genocide, Lothar von Trotha, Genocide, Genocide Convention