Namibia's Blue Book of record: Part one - The Mail & Guardian
Namibia’s Blue Book of record: Part one 4 Feb 2021 On 27 January, the world remembers the victims of the Holocaust, but it is also worth remembering the victims of Germany’s other, earlier genocide in Namibia. A rare book, commissioned by Britain in the early 1900s, stands as a record of the crimes against the Herero and the Nama (Photo by Fotografisches Atelier Ullstein/ullstein bild via Getty Images) The Blue Book: a chronicle of crimes When Major Thomas Leslie O’Reilly received the assignment from the Union of South Africa to gather evidence of the so-called natives’ “anxiety to ...
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