he drove the herero onto a strip of land at the foot of the volatile back mountain forty thousand of them men women and children. then the germans attacked on three sides the only hope for the herero was to flee across the area to a heck of a platter. those who tried to a match from the desert were shot by german patrols along the perimeter of the omega. thousands of herrero died of hunger and dehydration it was the first planned genocide. the twentieth century. of the asli through the order of the general front that every man woman and child must be killed and those who survived must flee the lead. and so the end result was that eighty percent of what people were actually.