History 52'

Namibia, the genocide of the second Reich

Between 1904 and 1907, Germany has committed his first genocide in Namibia and has explicitly planned the extermination of two people : the Namas and the Hereros. Two-thirds of the Herero people and the half of the Nama people of the German colony were killed, many in concentration camps.

Today, the descendants of the survivors are seeking reparations from the German government. An groundbreaking documentary on the origins of the Holocaust in Germany’s colonial Policy.

Direction: Anne Poiret

Production: Bo Travail !

Languages: French, English

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