Thread by @AdaBambou

@djigane Dear brother Djigane. We can't accept this anymore. These are information no one is/has been talking about, today/yesterday.

@djigane One group of people, can't hold us back, and use history to dominate, harass, kill, abuse and demonize others, on behalf of the pass none of us is are responsible if today. We Black and Africans people, have been victims of SEVERAL HILO INCLUDING the same one in Germany.

@djigane The MASSACRE OF BLACK PEOPLE BY HITLER AND THE NAZIS, has been the TEMPLATE OF THE HOLOCAUST. The Herero and Namaqua Genocide was the massacre of approximately 50,000 – 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama between 1904 and 1907 by German military forces in German South West Africa (

@djigane GSWA) – modern-day Namibia .

Background

Germany formally colonised GSWA in 1884. Prior to colonisation , several distinct native groups lived freely in the area, including the Herero, the Nama, the Damara, the San, and the Ovambo.

@djigane Under German rule, many of these native groups were used as slave labour and had their land confiscated and their cattle stolen. As a result of this treatment, tensions between the native population and the ruling Germans continued to rise.

@djigane Between 1904 and 1908, more than 80% of the Herero population and 50% of the Nama population of Namibia were killed by German soldiers.

Situation before the genocide
In the 19th century, Namibia, a country in southern Africa, was populated by several ethnic groups:

@djigane the San, Damara, Ovambo, Nama and Herero. The Nama and Herero, livestock farmers, were the country’s two main tribes. In 1884, Germany invaded the Namibian territory and founded the German South West Africa colony. The colonizers’ interest increased after the discovery of diamond

@djigane Genocide triggers
A policy of systematic land confiscation and the arrival of more and more German settlers forced the farmers off their land.

On January 12, 1904, the Herero rebelled. Guided by their leader, Samuel Maherero, they attacked a German garrison at Okahandja.

@djigane Progress of the genocide
In June 1904, the German General Lothar von Trotha was sent to Namibia to suppress the Herero revolt. He arrived in Namibia with 10,000 soldiers and a war plan.

@djigane On August 11, 1904, at the Battle of Waterberg, German soldiers encircled the Herero and were under the order to take no prisoners. A few thousand Herero nonetheless succeeded in fleeing to the Kalahari Desert.

@djigane German soldiers poisoned the few waterholes and were under the order to fire on any Herero attempting to return to their land. In just a few weeks, thousands of Herero died of hunger and thirst.

The order to kill all Herero was signed on October 2, 1904 by von Trotha:

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@djigane The Herero are no longer German subjects (…). Any Herero sighted within the [Namibian] German borders with or without a weapon, with or without cattle, will be shot. I will no longer accept women and children, but will send them back to their people or let them be slaughtered.”

@djigane Herero who survived the desert were imprisoned in concentration camps and enslaved. Thousands of women were victims of sexual violence inflicted by German soldiers.

Dr. Eugene Fischer conducted medical experiments on children born from these rapes.

@djigane His conclusion was that children born out of bi-racial unions were “inferior” to their German fathers. His research inspired Adolf Hitler and in the 1930s, Fischer taught his racist theories to Nazi doctors.

@djigane One of his students, Joseph MENGELE, was responsible for the medical experiments in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Now come to us Africans, and try to ask our compassion today. We will make sure you will remember this.

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