The Herero Wars were a series of colonial wars between the German Empire and the Herero people of German South West Africa (present-day Namibia). They...

The Herero and Nama genocide or Namibian genocide, formerly known also as the Herero and Namaqua genocide, was a campaign of ethnic extermination and collective...

The Herero (Otjiherero: Ovaherero) are a Bantu ethnic group inhabiting parts of Southern Africa. 178,987 Namibians identified as Ovaherero in the 2023...

suppressed a native rebellion during the Herero Wars. He was widely condemned for his brutality in the Herero Wars, particularly for his role in the genocide...

condoned a substantial number of war crimes, first in the Herero and Namaqua genocide and then in the First and Second World Wars. The most notable of these...

soldiers, respectively, in many of their colonial wars (and would do so again in the coming World Wars). In the age of nationalism there was pressure for...

criticize the action against the insurgents during the Herero Wars. In January 1904, the Herero and Namaqua genocide began in the German colony German...

of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia Herero Wars, a series of colonial wars between the German Empire and the Herero people of German South-West Africa...

traditional close combat weapons called kirri. From the opening of the Herero Wars in January 1904 until June 11, 1904, the German military efforts had...

German reprisals from 1904 to 1908 known as the Herero and Namaqua genocide. In 1915, during World War I, German South West Africa was invaded by the Western...