History is not only about commemorating victims of genocide after the fact. It is also about recognising warning signs before it is too late.
Long before the Holocaust, the German Empire carried out one of the first genocides of the twentieth century. In what is now Namibia, German colonial authorities dispossessed the Herero and Nama peoples of their land, wealth and freedom. When the Herero rose up against decades of colonial violence and oppression in 1904, Germany responded with a campaign of extermination that displaced and starved tens of thousands.
Ahmed Alnaouq explores the lessons of the Herero and Nama genocide and asks what responsibility we have when confronted with mass suffering in our own time.
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