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The area around southwest africa  was mostly colonized by germans that  had a small amount of people colonizing it with 250,000 inhabitants. While germany’s other african possession became germany’s only real settler colony that they could’ve found, the launch of a new settler society Albeit disrupted the socioeconomic balance of the territory resulted in the start of the war .

SOURCE: https://www.britannica.com/topic/German-Herero-conflict-of-1904-1907

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What group of people were targeted?- Ricardo.

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What group of people were targeted?- Ricardo.

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The people who were targeted were the Herero people. About 60,000 to 80,000 or 80% of their population were killed. Also the Nama people  were  targeted and about 20,000 or 50% of their population were killed by the German Colonist

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The predator of the genocide are the Germans colonist because they killed lots of Herero people and Nama people when they Rebelled against them.

SOURCE: https://www.britannica.com/topic/German-Herero-conflict-of-1904-1907

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What happened during the genocide?-Ricardo  

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What happened during the genocide?-Ricardo  

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The fighting began in a small town Okahandja. No one knows who fired the first shots. In the following weeks they were still fighting. The Herero people joined the Nama people in a revolt. They ended up killing about 150 colonist. Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha arrived with more than 14,000 soldiers He was a racist who military solution was to exterminate and annihilate the enemies he had lots of nationalism. In October 1, 1904 he issued the extermination order Vernichtungsbefehl. Later he would kill 5,000 Herero fighters and those who survived would be captured and killed Men, Women, and children were killed.

SOURCE:  https://moderngenocide.abcclio.com/Topics/TimePeriodOverview/8

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After the Germans introduced the system of human enclosures and they named it Konzentrationslager or in english concentration camps.  It is almost like what the Nazi Party did. Over the next 3 years the Herero prisoners were made to work. The working conditions were terrible that about half of the prisoner died there within the first week. The Nama people ended up in concentration camps also because they had risen up against the germans. The majority were sent to Shark island camp where 80% where killed.

SOURCE: https://www.britannica.com/topic/German-Herero-conflict-of-1904-1907

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the herero genocide started in 1904 because the german colony wanted to take  the land of the Herero and Nama people.Because of this the Herero and Nama people Rebelled and fought back against the german colony witch then started the herero wars.
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what was the herero genocide ?-Alejandro

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what was the herero genocide ?-Alejandro

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the Herero genocide was the killing of 60-80,000 Herero people with the Nama people also affected with about 50,000 of their people dead in south and west africa, by the German Colony that was around at this time. The herero Genocide lasted up to 8 years leading from 1904 to 1908 with about 80% of the Herero population annihilated and  about 50% of the Nama population also parishing in the same 8 years that this genocide occurred.
SOURCE: https://www.britannica.com/topic/German-Herero-conflict-of-1904-1907

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In 1966 German historian Horst Drechsler made the case that the German campaign against the Herero people and the Nama people was a genocide Because they killed Herero  and Nama Men, Women and Kids. They put the Herero and Nama people in to concentration camps and forced them to work and then kill them. 50% of the Nama people and 80% of the Herero people were killed.

SOURCE: https://www.britannica.com/topic/German-Herero-conflict-of-1904-1907

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The nama people lead by Hendrik witbooi got involved to help the herero people fight of the germans with both the Herero and Nama people they ended up killing 150 german settlers. Altho this was not enough because the germans would continue sneak attacks on herero with modern machine guns and artillery killing them off  but because of a weak flank by the germans the herero people were able to make an escape into the deserts of south africa germany.
SOURCE: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brutal-genocide-colonial-africa-finally-gets-its-deserved-recognition-180957073/

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The fighting began on jan 12,1904 in a small town of okahandja no one knows who fired the first shots but what we do know is that by day break herero fighters had laid Siege on german forts. In the following weeks battles are carried out across the central high grounds, to gain control of the situation maharero the leader of the herero people issued rules of engagement witch removes woman and children from the conflict.
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It was considered a genocide because of the things that happened during this  genocide for example ,
-Women and Children were killed
-80% and 50% of both people were killed
-Germany years later said that this indeed was considered a genocide

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After this happened the water hole of Ozombu Zovindima dubbed the extermination act that meant that all herero people armed or not will be shot on sight, but this only lasted for 2 months as the emperor got rid of it. But they did hold Concentration Camps where they held men women and children where all of them had to work, they also put the people of Nama in concentration camps because of their involvement in the war.
SOURCE: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/25/germany-moves-to-atone-for-forgotten-genocide-in-namibia

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