{"product_id":"book-0001-dswa-original-ausgage-die-kampfe-der-deutschen-truppen-in-sudwestafrika-erster-band-der-feldzug-gegen-die-hereros-1906-und-zweiter-band-der-hottentottenkrieg-berlin-1907-ernst-siegfried-mittler-und-sohn-konigliche-hofbuchhandlung","title":"Buch 0001 - DSWA - Die Kämpfe der deutschen Truppen in Südwestafrika - 1907","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst volume - The Campaign against the Hereros, 1906 and Second volume - The Hottentot War, Berlin 1907, Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, Königliche Hofbuchhandlung\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal Edition:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eThe Battles of the German Troops in Southwest Africa\u003c\/span\u003e - First volume - Berlin 1906, ErnstSiegfried Mittler und Sohn, Königliche Hofbuchhandlung\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e248 pages; illustrated; maps; 25.5 cm. Good, sturdy copy; cover scuffed and rubbed; significant signs of wear and storage; handwritten ownership entry; stamp; some pages somewhat stained. - In Fraktur script. -\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCONTENT \/ Chapters: The Outbreak of the Herero Uprising; The Triumphal March of Franke's Company; The Battles in the Onjati Mountains; The Decisive Battle at Waterberg; The Downfall of the Herero People. \/ Index of Map Sketches: Overview map of German Southwest Africa; Overview sketch of Hereroland; Sketch of the skirmish at Klein-Barmen; at Ongajira; Sketch of the battlefield of Owiumbo; Staging posts during the advance on Waterberg; Situation on 10.8.04. Approaches to the battles at Waterberg \/ etc. -- The genocide of the Herero and Nama occurred during and after the suppression of the Herero and Nama uprisings against the German colonial power in the colony of German Southwest Africa during the years 1904 to 1908. The uprising, fueled by existential fears, began in January 1904 with the attack by the Ovaherero under Samuel Maharero on German facilities and farms. As the colonial \"Schutztruppe\" (protection force) was initially not up to the task, the Imperial Government immediately dispatched reinforcements. With approximately 15,000 men under the command of Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha, the Herero uprising was crushed by August 1904. Most of the Herero then fled into the almost waterless Omaheke Desert. Trotha had this sealed off and drove away refugees from the few existing water sources there, so that thousands of Herero, together with their families and cattle herds, died of thirst. Trotha had them informed in the so-called extermination order: \"The Herero are no longer German subjects. [...] Within the German border, every Herero, with or without a rifle, with or without cattle, will be shot. I will no longer take in women or children, I will drive them back to their people or have them shot too.\" Trotha's warfare aimed at the complete annihilation of the Herero (\"I believe that the nation as such must be destroyed\"); his approach is considered by scholars to be the first genocide of the 20th century. Trotha was supported in this by the Chief of the General Staff Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (\"The ignited race war can only be concluded by the annihilation [.] of one party\") and Emperor Wilhelm II. In view of the incidents, the Nama rose up in October 1904 under their captains Hendrik Witbooi and Jakob Morenga. Learning from the warfare against the Herero, the Nama avoided open battle against the German occupation and began a guerrilla war. Demoralized by the deaths of Witbooi, Morenga, and other leaders, almost all Nama groups eventually submitted to the German treaties of subjugation, so that the war was declared ended on March 31, 1907. But this did not end the colonial policy of extermination. Following the hostilities, the Herero and Nama were interned in concentration camps, where nearly every second inmate died. Of the Herero people, estimated at around 60,000 to 80,000 people around 1904, only an estimated 20,000 people remained alive in 1911. The genocide in German Southwest Africa had thus cost the lives of 40,000 to 60,000 Herero and about 10,000 Nama. 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