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Vor 5 Stunden · German authorities under General Lothar von Trotha unleashed a brutal retaliation, fuelled by racial ideology and including mass killings, forced labour and concentration camps. The massacre is ...
Vor 2 Tagen · Background Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha Theodor Leutwein (seated left), Zacharias Zeraua (2nd from left) and Manasseh Tyiseseta (seated, fourth from left), in 1895 Nama captain Hendrik Witbooi Theodor Leutwein toasting Hendrik Witbooi in 1896 German Schutztruppe in combat with the Herero in a painting by Richard Knötel Central figure Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha, the ...
Vor 3 Tagen · On August 11, the German Army led by Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha defeated Herero warriors (led by Samuel Maharero) on the plateau of Waterberg. The Herero fled into the desert, falling prey to German soldiers who shot any Herero they came across on sight. Von Trotha’s men also poisoned wells. So those who were not shot, died of thirst.
Vor 4 Tagen · The Berlin government accordingly dispatched Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha and 14,000 soldiers to the insurgent colony. General Trotha's task was more than the subduing of the Herero insurrection. He was to conduct a ‘racial struggle’ against them. Trotha announced his programme with chilling clarity: ‘I believe that the nation ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Mit insgesamt etwa 15.000 Mann unter Generalleutnant Lothar von Trotha wurde der Aufstand der Herero im August 1904 in der Schlacht am Waterberg niedergeschlagen. Trotha erließ den sogenannten Vernichtungsbefehl, nach dem Überlebende in die Wüste zurückgetrieben wurden.
Vor einem Tag · Genocide in the turbulent 20th century began with General Lothar von Trotha, Imperial Germany’s governor of the colony of South-West Africa, modern-day Namibia, directly appealing to his soldiers in October 1904 that the Herero people “will have to leave the country…. by means of guns. Within the German boundaries, every Herero, whether ...
Vor einem Tag · The German government therefore dispatched a naval expeditionary force and subsequently reinforcement Schutztruppe. In total, around 15,000 men under Lieutenant-general Lothar von Trotha defeated the Herero forces in August 1904 at the Battle of Waterberg.
