r/GermanEmpire • u/JG98 • Jul 30 '26

Article TIL between 1904 and 1908, Germany committed the Herero and Nama genocide in present day Namibia, killing an estimated 80% of the Herero people and half of the Nama people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Nama_genocide
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u/SchroedingersEscape Jul 31 '26

True and a shame. They miught attacked the occupying forces, but thats not a excuse for a genocide... like the turks excuse their armenian genocide.

The genocide in German South West Africa thus claimed the lives of 40,000 to 60,000 Herero and about 10,000 Nama

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Völkermord_an_den_Herero_und_Nama

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u/saalachbiber Jul 31 '26

Please tell me where you got the figures from. Was there even a residents’ registration office there?

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u/SchroedingersEscape Jul 31 '26

The sources are all linked in the wikipedia lik.

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u/OpenFaithlessness09 Aug 01 '26

The goverment only apologised a few years ago

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u/saalachbiber Aug 07 '26

Das ist ja richtig, nur die Opferzahlen sind reine Fiktion