Under German colonial rule, natives were routinely used as slave labourers, and their lands were frequently confiscated and given to colonists, who were encouraged to settle on land taken from the natives; that land was stocked with cattle stolen from the Herero and Namas. When Germany struggled to become a belated colonial power in the […]
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Racism in German history is intricately linked to the Herero and Namaqua genocide in colonial times. Racism reached its peak during the Nazi regime which eventually led to a program of systematic state-sponsored murder known as The Holocaust. (A conscious extirpation of European Jews) According to reports by the European Commission, milder forms of racism […]