Germany's first Genocide| The Herero Massacre

 

When the words Germany and genocide are used in the same sentence, most people's minds exclusively go to the Jewish holocaust in which the NAZIs systematically killed 6 million European Jews during World War 2. A true tragedy of unimaginable proportions that shook the world to its foundations showing the depravity of man and man's inhumanity to man. But this was not the first time Germany had engaged in such atrocities, in fact, far away in Africa, many decades before the Jewish Holocaust, an African tribe in east Africa faced a similar fate. Perhaps lessons from the success of this atrocity against the African tribe may have been applied in carrying out the Jewish holocaust decades later. In an era where Europeans were scrambling for over sea territories in Africa, Germany being one of the European powers was not left out in the business of colonization. They owned vast territory in German Southwest Africa, present day Namibia, and it's in this German colony of Africa, that Germany would first mete out such horrendous atrocities to fellow humans. #germany #genocide #hereromassacre