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Rivers Of Blood And Money: The Herero Genocide In German Southwest Africa, Thomas Burden
Rivers Of Blood And Money: The Herero Genocide In German Southwest Africa, Thomas Burden
The Student Researcher: A Phi Alpha Theta Publication
The history of African colonialism is filled with stories of atrocity perpetrated under the guise of cultural or racial superiority. The death of 32,000 civilians in British concentration camps during the Second Boer War, and the horrors perpetrated in the Belgian Congo are only two examples of the effects of European imperialism in Africa.1 When the Herero people rebelled against the German colonial government in 1904, the Schutztruppe and colonial officials responded with a brutality that mirrored their fellow European colonizers.2 However, unlike the other European powers, Imperial Germany cast their conflict with the Herero in terms of a racial …