"The Kaiser's Holocaust" Book Trailer: David Olusoga and Casper Erichsen

Publisher:
jsavideoproductions
Publication Date:
1 March 2012
Tags:
Namibia, Legal and Judicial Affairs, Europe and Africa, Human Rights

On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia. As settlers began to take over the tribal lands of the indigenous peoples, the Herero and Nama resisted and Germany launched a war of extermination. It ended with the construction of concentration camps, in which prisoners were systematically worked and starved to death.

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