On Wednesday, Namibia commemorates for the first time the mass killings of Herero and Nama people, committed by Germany, at the beginning of the 20th century. The genocide, termed by historians as ...

On May 28, 2021, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas announced that Germany will recognize the atrocities against the Herero and Nama people as genocide and work towards genuine reconciliation in ...

The Herero and Nama genocide is one such example. It took place between 1904 and 1908 in German-occupied South West Africa (currently the territory of Namibia). A foreign colony in Africa, it was ...

More than a century ago, Germany carried out a systematic massacre. From 1904 to 1908, in what is now Namibia, the German colonial government killed about 80,000 Herero and Nama people.

Measures of Men traces the story of the Herero and Nama massacre from the perspective of well-meaning but naive German ethnologist Alexander Hoffmann, played by Leonard Scheicher, who initially ...

Between 1904 and 1908, at least 60,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama people were killed, many at German-run concentration camps, although some estimates put the death toll higher.

The killings of Herero and Nama men, women and children have been recognized as the first genocide of the 20th century. Historians say von Trotha, who was sent to German South West Africa to put ...