Kaiser's Holocaust (64 page)

• Vedder, Heinrich,
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• Veldschoendrager Nama,
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• Veldskoendraers,
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• Verschuer, Otmar von,
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• Versailles, Treaty of (1919),
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• Vogelsang, Heinrich,
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• Voigts, Gustav,
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• Völkisch movement,
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• Völkischer Beobachter (newspaper),
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• Wagner, Gerhard,
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• Waldersee, Alfred von,
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• Walker, Dr Henry,
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• Walvis Bay,
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• Warmbad,
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• Warthegau,
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• Wasserfall, Georg,
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• Waterberg,
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• Waterberg, battle of the (1904),
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• Weimar,
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• West German Society for Colonisation and Export,
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• Westernhagen, Lieutenant von,
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• Wieczorek-Zeul, Heidemarie,
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• Wiesenthal, Simon,
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• wildlife,
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• Wilhelm II, Kaiser: replaces Bismarck with con Caprivi,
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  • caught up in controversy over Witbooi treaty,
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  • close friends,
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  • and Boxer Rebellion,
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  • reaction to Bondelswart killing of Schutztruppe officer,
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  • and German-Herero War,
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  • reaction to Extermination Order,
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  • commissions Stillfried Report,
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  • acquits Stillfried of unlawfully bringing Herero ‘servant’ back to Germany,
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  • honours von Trotha,
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  • appropriates all indigene land in South-West Africa,
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  • believes can win World War I,
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  • promotes von Lettow-Vorbeck,
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  • exile in Holland after war,
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• Wilhelm’s Fort,
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• Wilson, Woodrow,
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• Windhoek: Germans settle,
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  • Witbooi Nama raid,
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  • railway,
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  • German frustrations fan flames of racial hatred there,
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  • unveiling of Rider Statue,
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  • transformation into simulacrum of European city,
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  • numbers of registered businesses,
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  • South Africans capture during World War I,
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  • Nazi sympathies,
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  • police kill anti-Apartheid demonstrators,
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  • modern racial and ethnic integration,
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• Windhoek concentration camp,
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• Wissmann, Hermann,
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• Witbooi, Hendrik: background and character,
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  • war with Herero,
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  • rejects idea of German protection treaty,
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  • deals with German gold prospectors,
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  • opposition to Germans,
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  • and Hoornkrans massacre,
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  • daughter enslaved by Germans,
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  • increases resistance to Germans,
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  • forced into German treaty after attack on Naukluft Mountains,
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  • wealth,
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  • and German-Nama War,
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  • diaries captured by Germans,
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  • limitations as leader for colonised people,
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  • death,
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  • modern descendants,
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• Witbooi, Hendrik Samuel,
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• Witbooi, Izaak,
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• Witbooi, Klein Hendrik,
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• Witbooi, Peter,
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• Witbooi (White Boys) Nama: origins of name,
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  • war with Herero,
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  • reject German offer of protection
    treaty,
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  • call on Herero to unite against Germans,
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  • opposition to Germans leads to Hoornkrans massacre,
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  • peace with Herero,
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  • substantial resistance to Germans,
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  • forced into German treaty after attack on Naukluft Mountains,
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  • visit Berlin to take part in Colonial Show,
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  • native reserve established,
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  • compelled to serve Germans during German-Herero War,
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  • war against Germans,
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  • sent to concentration camps,
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  • Germans consider unfit for labour,
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  • German ‘final solution’,
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  • eighty deported to Togo,
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  • numbers exterminated by Germans,
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  • treatment of survivors,
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  • incarcerated survivors released by South Africans,
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  • veterans fight in war for Namibian independence,
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  • life nowadays,
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  • memorialisation of genocide,
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• Witzenhausen German Colonial School,
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• Woermann, Adolf,
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• Woermann trading and shipping company,
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• Woermann Brock Company,
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• Wolf (gunboat),
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• World War I (1914–18): in Africa,
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  • Eastern Front,
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  • German colonialism in Europe,
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  • Western Front,
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• World War II (1939–45): German colonialism,
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  • Operation Barbarossa,
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  • socialist view of hypocrisy of,
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• Wyk, Hermanus van,
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• Zeraua, Barmenias,
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• Zeraua, Katherine,
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• Zhytomyr,
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• Zülow, Commander von,
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• Zürn, Lieutenant Ralph,
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