German settlement of South-West Africa, modern Namibia

Historical Context Note

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 7.2.3.03: South Africa and other Southern Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Helen Rachel Cousins (Newman University), David Firth (University of Manchester)

Domains

Colonialism and colonisation

Dates

Date of occurrence 1883-05-12

Places

Namibia (Location)
Germany (Involved)

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Germany begins to establish colonial settlements in South-West Africa and the coastal area of Angra Pequeña (in present-day Namibia). Britain responds to this potential threat by declaring that any claims to territorial sovereignty between Cape Colony and Angola will be viewed as an infringement of British rights.

German occupation was resisted by the Herero and Nama tribes who were systematically rounded up and then worked and starved to death in a deliberate policy of extermination which has come to seem a precursor of the holocaust.

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "German settlement of South-West Africa, modern Namibia". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 January 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5281, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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