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Namibia: Genocide and the Second Reich
A hundred years ago, three quarters of the Herero people of the German colony of Namibia were killed, many in concentration camps.
Today, the descendants of the survivors are seeking reparations from the German government. This film tells for the first time this forgotten story and its links to German racial theories.
Described by the BBC as the story of Germany’s forgotten genocide. This powerful documentary by David Adetayo Olusoga took a sensitive and uncompromising look at the tragic circumstances leading to the massacre of three quarters of the Namibia population in German concentration camps built in Africa.
The programme included graphic reconstructions and did not shirk from showing disturbing scenes which revealed the savagery of european colonial ideology put into practise.
The documentary also showed the 2004 footage of Germany’s ambassador to Namibia expressing regret for their killing of thousands of Namibia’s Hereros during the colonial era. Unsurprisingly, the Germans refused to agree to the justifiable calls for reparations.
The programme also explored the current call for land reforms where most of Namibia’s commercial land is still owned by european farmers who make up 6 percent of the country’s population of 1.8 million.
Throughout it included interviews and powerful testimony from African survivors, descendants and reparation movement representatives thus making this a compelling programme which both educated the audience whilst treating the sensitive subject matter with the respect it deserved.
more Watch the full documentary
h/t Dyrewulf
Unneutral
July 2nd, 2012
I’ve never approved of reparations, the acts of violence by former generations were completely out of the control of the present generation.
Plain Jane
July 2nd, 2012
Don’t have time now to watch all 6 parts, but I started getting interested in Namibia a bit ago when I bought Hake fish from Namibia at Costco.
I don’t ever recall reading or hearing anything about the country before that, and I don’t live in a cocoon.
Thank you for putting up the link. Namibia’s history sounds like much of Africa with the people conquered and their resources pillaged.
old_oaks
July 2nd, 2012
We ARE the 93%!
judgeroybean
July 2nd, 2012
There are no surviving perps and no surviving victims. Fugeddaboudit. Time to move on.
grayscape
July 2nd, 2012
I spent a lot of time traveling Namibia in 99-2000. The women are HOT – not Bantu.
I agree with reparations by oppressors to the victims….which is why I support the Democrat party paying reparations to descendants of slaves (but not descendants of slave owners like Mooch).
I also believe Democrats should make reparations to native Americans for breaking treaties and shit.
In fact, Democrats should be considered MORALLY on basically the same leval as Nazis.
Lowell
July 2nd, 2012
Well now, a group of people being mean and assholish toward another group not like them. What an original story line!
It’s the bulk of the history of our planet. Different religion, skin color, height (no kidding) better farmland or winter ice free ports. We never seem to run out of reasons.
I’ve hoped for a long time nobody from off planet was watching. Unless they are warlike too. In that case if they’ve seen what we’ll do to each other they KNOW what we’ll do to them. Might discourage ‘em.
bucketman
July 2nd, 2012
Is this the P C rewriting of history?
xthred
July 2nd, 2012
Nothing Europeans have done compares to the barbarity Africans inflict on each other. Or the barbarity of the muzloid slavers.
Blacksmith8✡
July 3rd, 2012
Nothing Europeans have done compares to the barbarity Africans inflict on each other. Or the barbarity of the muzloid slavers.
I know plagirism. But Joe felt like it had to be said again.
Dyrewulf
July 3rd, 2012
The interesting point of the film is where the ideas and policies that led to the genocide started: the ideas started with a university professor’s theory, which was then made popular by the government. Further into the history, the government then paid the university to essentially declare the tribes being exterminated as’no longer useful’ to the world, and the researchers ginned up data to support this.
Kind of like: Global Warming, Obamacare, the Dream Act, Gun Control, etc. etc. etc.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
July 3rd, 2012
NO REPARATIONS, EVER.</b?
They want reparations from Germany? Let 'em open casinos, allow only Lufthansa to land there and
accept only the Deutsche Mark. And, knowing older Germans, having some whorehouses staffed by ten-year-olds of both sexes would only increase the profit picture for the locals.
American blacks have been receiving "reparations" for decades. It's time that stopped, too.
dougie b
July 3rd, 2012
cmon, cmon, first ya gotta get your “civil rights”, THEN ya call EVERYBODY a friggin RAAAAACIIIIST
Tim
July 3rd, 2012
While discussing Janet Reno’s torching of the compound at Waco, subsequently murdering 100 (or so) men, women, and children one Demonrat-voting Negro who was employed in our shop commented: “Well, they musta deserved it.”
So, using that Demonrat Negro’s logic: The Hereros “musta deserved it.”
charlotte
July 3rd, 2012
I don’t agree with the no reparations viewpoint. BECAUSE GERMANY IS A SERIAL OFFENDER.
SAME WITH TURKEY.
Its the only way they will learn.