Herero Wars

(noun)

A series of colonial wars between the German Empire and the Herero people of German South-West Africa (present-day Namibia, c. 1903–1908).

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  • the Herero and Namaqua genocide
  • Khoisan peoples
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Examples of Herero Wars in the following topics:

  • Namibia

    • During the 17th century, the Herero, a pastoral, nomadic people keeping cattle, moved into Namibia.
    • 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.
    • During the 17th century the Herero, a pastoral, nomadic people keeping cattle, moved into Namibia.
  • Germany and the Herero

  • 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.
    • 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. 
    • 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).
    • Local commanders continued to kill Jews, and to shuttle them from camp to camp by forced "death marches" until the last weeks of the war.
  • The Guatemalan Civil War

  • The Bosnian War

  • The Syrian Civil War

  • The Opium Wars

  • Total War

  • The Russian Civil War

  • The Propaganda War

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