German abuses of the Herero and Nama were the 20th century’s first genocide, a harbinger of the Nazis’ WWII Holocaust.
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Hamilton Wende is an author and journalist based in Johannesburg.
German abuses of the Herero and Nama were the 20th century’s first genocide, a harbinger of the Nazis’ WWII Holocaust.