Often referred to as “Germany’s forgotten genocide,” in May 2025 Namibia’s President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah honored the genocide that Germany committed in the country between 1904 and 1908.
Germany’s settler colonies in southwest Africa established their borders in 1890. After a series of rebellions from the Herero and Nama peoples, Germany established concentration camps, killing up to 75,000 people.
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