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Presentation of genocide
Genocide of the Herero and Nama in Namibia (PDF, new window)
The new German governor promised the few thousand survivors who were hiding in the bush, most of them walking skeletons, that they would be safe.
Image. Photograph of Herero women in traditional dress. Credit: Anonymous author, Colonial Archives of the Goethe University in Frankfurt.
Image. Herero men in chains, 1904. Credit: Wikimedia.
Image. Propaganda painting by Richard Knötel from 1904. The Germans referred to this as the "Herero War" and not genocide. Credit: Richard Knötel, Wikimedia.
Image. Propaganda painting by Carl Becker from 1908 making it look like German women were being attacked by Hereros and Namas. Credit: Carl Becker, Wikimedia.