Germany begins to establish colonial settlements in South-West Africa and the coastal area of Angra Pequeña (in present-day Namibia). Britain responds to this potential threat by declaring that any claims to territorial sovereignty between Cape Colony and Angola will be viewed as an infringement of British rights.
German occupation was resisted by the Herero and Nama tribes who were systematically rounded up and then worked and starved to death in a deliberate policy of extermination which has come to seem a precursor of the holocaust.
German occupation was resisted by the Herero and Nama tribes who were systematically rounded up and then worked and starved to death in a deliberate policy of extermination which has come to seem a precursor of the holocaust.
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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "German settlement of South-West Africa, modern Namibia". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 January 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5281, accessed 06 May 2024.]
