Auer, Georg, 1
Auob Valley, battle of the (1904), 1
Aus, 1, 2
Auschwitz, 1, 2
Australia, 1, 2
Ballot, D. W., 1
Bam, Johannes, 1
Bamberger, Ludwig, 1
Bank, Vitje, 1
Barth, Heinrich, 1
Bartlet, Leslie Cruikshank, 1
Baster: Herero refrain from attacking in German-Herero War, 1;
compelled to fight for Germans during German-Herero War, 1, 2;
choose not to fight in German-Nama War, 1;
way of life and Fischer’s studies, 1, 2, 3, 4;
marriage with Germans, 1
Bathurst, 1
Baur, Erwin, 1
Bayer, Captain Maximilian, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Bebel, August, 1
Bechuanaland (Botswana), 1, 2, 3, 4
Beck, Sergeant, 1
Beesten, Lieutenant von, 1
Belgium, colony in Congo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
actions in Africa in World War I, 1, 2;
British condemn behaviour in Congo, 1;
German atrocities in World War I, 1;
post-World War II desire to remain colonial power, 1, 2;
pledges to hand over African mandates to UN, 1
Bennett, Benjamin, 1
Berger, Carl, 1
Berlin, 1, 2, 3
Berlin Charitie Hospital, 1
Berlin Colonial Show (1896), 1
Berlin Conference (1884–5), 1, 2, 3, 4
Berlin School of Commerce, 1
Berseba, 1, 2, 3
Bethanie, 1, 2, 3
Bethanie Nama: sell land to German trader, 1, 2;
and German-Nama War, 1, 2, 3;
surrender to Germans, 1;
numbers exterminated by Germans, 1;
treatment of survivors, 1;
incarcerated survivors released by South Africans, 1
Beves, Colonel, 1
biological racism see race science and eugenics
Bismarck, Prince Otto von, Chancellor: initial resistance to idea of German colonies in Africa, 1;
pressurised into helping establish them, 1, 2, 3;
appoints Göring as Imperial Commissioner, 1, 2;
blames British for German failures in South-West Africa, 1;
sends limited military force to South-West Africa, 1;
von François provokes into sending more troops, 1;
removed from office, 1;
Hitler reads memoirs, 1
Boer War (1899–1902), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Bofinger, Dr, 1, 2
Bonar Law, Andrew, 1
Bondelswart Nama, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Bonn, Moritz, 1, 2
Booth, Charles, 1
Bormann, Martin, 1, 2, 3, 4
Botha, General Louis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Botswana see Bechuanaland
Boxer Rebellion, 1, 2
Brazza, Pierre de, 1
Bremen, 1, 2, 3
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1917), 1
Britain: considers putting penal colony in South-West Africa, 1;
abolishes slavery, 1;
style of colonialism, 1, 2;
in Africa, 1, 2;
reaction to German occupation of Angra Pequeña, 1;
protectorates, 1, 2;
Bismarck thwarts Lüderitz’s plans to get finance from, 1;
Germans blame for own failures in South-West Africa, 1;
Hendrik Witbooi appeals to in vain for protection from Germans, 1, 2;
and Boer War, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
actions in Africa during World War I, 1;
as part of anti-German propaganda drive, expose German genocide in South-West Africa despite earlier connivance, 1, 2;
and German Spring Offensive on Western Front, 1;
Pan-Germanic hatred of, 1;
Nazi attitude to British Empire, 1;
post-war desperation to hold on to empire, 1;
hands over African mandates to UN, 1
Brockmann, Clara, 1, 2, 3
Brown Shirts see SA
Bülow, Bernhard von: inability to control von Trotha, 1;
on von Trotha’s tactics, 1;
attitude to Extermination Order, 1;
supports Stillfried Report, 1, 2;
and Shark Island death camp, 1;
blocking of new colonial budget forces him into ‘Hottentot’ election, 1
Burgsdorff, District Commissioner von, 1
Burke, Edmund, 1
Burke, J. D. L., 1
‘Bushmen’ see San
Cameroon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Campbell, Hendrik, 1
Cão, Diogo, 1
Cape Colony see South Africa
Cape Cross, 1, 2
Cape Frio, 1
Caprivi, Count Leo von, 1, 2
cattle: Rinderpest outbreak, 1;
importance to Herero and Nama, 1;
increase in herds after Rinderpest, 1;
collapse in industry after German-Herero War, 1
Cetshwayo, King of the Zulus, 1
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, 1
Chamberlain, Joseph, 1
China, 1, 2
Christian, Jan, 1
Christian, Johannes, 1
Christianity see religion
Churchill, Winston, 1
Ciano, Count Galeazzo, 1
Class, Heinrich, 1
Cleverly, John, 1, 2
clothes, 1, 2, 3, 4
colonialism: Allies try to distance their version from that of Nazis, 1;
attraction of being colonist, 1;
Berlin Conference (1884–5), 1, 2, 3, 4;
colonised’s lack of voice, 1;
genocide, justifications for, 1, 2, 3;
indigenes exhibited in colonisers’ capitals, 1;
Lebensraum, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
Nazi attitude, 1;
opposition to colonial violence, 1;
scientific vision of, 1, 2;
styles of, 1, 2;
truth about colonial ‘small wars’, 1
Columbus, Christopher, 1
concentration camps: in Boer War, 1, 2;
Germans set up in South-West Africa, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
development of Shark Island into death camp, 1, 2, 3;
body parts industry, 1;
medical research on inmates, 1, 2, 3;
Shark Island closed, 1;
South African invaders discover truth about, 1;
truth revealed to world, 1, 2;
Nazi camps, 1, 2, 3;
Namibian government requests return of body parts from Germany, 1
Congo: as Belgian colony, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
in World War I, 1, 2;
British condemn Belgian behaviour, 1;
German plans for, 1, 2
Congo River, 1, 2
Conrad, Joseph, 1
Conradt, Ludwig, 1
copper, 1
Cornell, Fred, 1, 2
crime and punishment, 1
Crimea, 1, 2
Cromer, Lieutenant, 1
Crowe, Sir Eyre, 1, 2
Cuba, 1, 2
Dachau, 1
Dakar, 1
Damara, 1, 2, 3
Dame, Colonel, 1, 2, 3
Darre, Walther, 1
Darwin, Charles, 1, 2
death camps see concentration camps
Deimling, Colonel Berthold von, 1, 2, 3
Dernburg, Bernhardt, 1, 2
Deutschbund, 1
Deutsche Bank, 1, 2
Diagne, Blaise, 1
diamonds, 1, 2
Diehl, Phillip, 1
Dierks, Klaus, 1
Dommer, Dr, 1
Douala, 1
Dresden Bank, 1
Drexler, Anton, 1, 2
Dubois, W. E. B., 1
Duft, Councillor, 1
Düring, Lieutenant, 1
Eastern Europe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Eckenbrecher, Margarethe von, 1, 2
Ehrhardt, Hermann, 1, 2, 3
, 4
Eich, Wilhelm, 1, 2
Eisner, Kurt, 1, 2
Elger, Pastor, 1, 2
Elizabeth (corvette), 1
Ellis, John, 1
Epp, General Franz Xavier von: ideas on race, 1, 2;
in South-West Africa, 1, 2, 3;
attack on ‘Red Munich’, 1, 2;
virtual dictator of Munich, 1;
and Nazis, 1, 2, 3;
coordinates Nazi African colonial campaign, 1;
support for Boers, 1
Erzberger, Matthias, 1
Estorff, Ludwig von: takes part in attack on Naukluft Mountains, 1;
tries to persuade von Trotha to negotiate with Herero, 1;
on von Trotha’s tactics, 1;
pursues Herero into Omaheke, 1;
reputation, 1;
and German-Nama War, 1, 2;
closes Shark Island camp, 1;
estimate of number of Nama deaths in camp, 1;
complains about treatment of surviving Herero, 1
Eugen Fischer Institute (formerly Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics), 1, 2, 3
eugenics see race science and eugenics
euthanasia, 1
Extermination Order (1904), 1
Fabri, Friedrich, 1
Farrar, Frederick, 1
Fenschel, Heinrich, 1, 2
Fetzer, Christian, 1, 2
Fighting Thule League see Kampfbund Thule
Firma Lenz, 1, 2
First World War see World War I
Fischer, Adolf, 1
Fischer, Eugen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
France: in Africa, 1, 2, 3;
style of colonialism, 1;
invades Togo during World War I, 1;
post-World War II desire to remain colonial power, 1, 2;
pledges to hand over African mandates to UN, 1
François, Curt von: appearance and background, 1;
African exploration on behalf of Belgium, 1, 2;
leads German military mission in South-West Africa, 1, 2, 3;
leads Hoornkrans massacre, 1, 2;
discourages racial mixing, 1;
British lionise, 1;
documents and letters examined during investigation into German genocide, 1
Frank, Hans, 1, 2
Franke, Major Victor, 1, 2
Franzmann Nama, 1, 2, 3
Fredericks, Cornelius, 1, 2, 3, 4
Fredericks, Joseph, 1, 2
Freiburg University, 1
Freikorps: composition and character, 1;
operations, 1
Frenssen, Gustav, 1
Fuchs, Dr, 1, 2, 3
Galton, Francis, 1, 2
Gambia, 1
genocide, justifications for, 1, 2, 3
Gerecke, Captain Henry F., 1
German Colonial Society: establishment, 1, 2;
pushes government towards establishing colonies, 1;
launches campaign for military intervention in South-West Africa, 1;
encourages women to become colonists, 1;
campaigns for return of lost colonies, 1;
and Nazis, 1
German East Africa: Rinderpest outbreak, 1;
German war against Wahehe, 1, 2;
Lettow-Vorbeck in, 1;
governor vetoes deportation of Nama to, 1;
race laws, 1, 2;
during World War I, 1
German South-West African Colonial Company, 1, 2
Germany: colonial ambitions, 1, 2;
style of colonialism, 1;
acquisition of African colonies, 1;
African trade, 1, 2;
African exploration, 1;
size of African empire, 1;
attempt to strengthen hold on South-West Africa by entering into treaties with indigenous peoples ends in failure, 1;
sends military force to South-West Africa, 1;
urbanisation and overpopulation, 1;
emigration to USA, 1, 2;
emigration to Africa encouraged, 1;
Völkisch movement, 1;
racial nationalism, 1;
domestic fascination with colonies and their inhabitants, 1;
Rinderpest gives colonists ideas of how to speed up land acquisition, 1;
and Boxer Rebellion, 1, 2;
origins of Hun nickname, 1;
prepares for large-scale settlement of South-West Africa, 1;
war against Bondelswarts, 1, 2;
war against Herero, 1;
domestic reaction to Herero War, 1;
militarism, 1;
Cleansing Patrols, 1, 2;
establishment of concentration camps in South-West Africa, 1;
war against Nama, 1, 2;
ethnic cleansing of indigenes completed, 1;
new colonial budget seeking increased funding for South-West Africa blocked, 1;
this forces ‘Hottentot’ election, 1;
domestic reaction to African death camps, 1;
rewriting of wars against indigenes, 1, 2;
treatment of surviving indigenes, 1;
appropriation of all South-West African land, 1;
colonists’ way of life in South-West Africa, 1;
colonial colleges set up, 1;
women encouraged to become colonists, 1;
race laws in South-West Africa, 1;
domestic race laws, 1;
popularity of racial science, 1;
genocide in South-West Africa exposed, 1, 2;
on Eastern Front in World War I, 1, 2;
on Western Front in World War I, 1, 2;
hopes of expanding colonies in World War I, 1;
tide of war turns against, 1;
European atrocities in World War I, 1;
African colonies confiscated, 1;
economic and political conditions after World War I, 1;
under Nazis, 1;
nostalgia for South-West Africa colony, 1, 2, 3;
Namibia requests return of body parts, 1;
Herero file claim for reparations, 1;
government apologises to Namibia, 1
Gewald, Jan-Bart, 1
Gibeon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Gilbert, G. M., 1
Glauer, Adam (Freiherr von Sebottendorff), 1
Gobineau, Arthur Count de, 1, 2
Goebbels, Joseph, 1, 2, 3, 4
gold, 1
Goldammer, Hugo, 1, 2
Golinelli, Dr Angelo, 1, 2
Gorges, E. Howard, 1, 2, 3
Göring, Dr Heinrich, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Göring, Hermann: background, 1;
birth, 1;
in World War I, 1;
father’s supposed influence, 1;
and von Epp, 1;
and ‘Rhineland Bastards’, 1;
and Nazi plans for colonising Soviet Union, 1, 2;
recognises Nazis to be part of historical and ideological continuum, 1;
and ‘Final Solution’, 1;
trial, 1;
death, 1
Griffith, Percy, 1
Grimm, Hans, 1
guano, 1
Gühne, Dr, 1, 2
Gürtner, Franz, 1
Haak, Senior Lieutenant, 1
Haeckel, Ernst, 1, 2
Hagenbeck, Carl, 1
Hai Khauan, 1
Halder, Franz, 1
Hamburg, 1, 2, 3, 4
Hamburg Colonial Institute, 1, 2, 3
Hamburg South Seas Expedition, 1
Hanover, Göring Colonial House, 1
Haushoffer, Professor Karl, 1
Hegewald, 1
Hendrik, Hans, 1, 2
Henry ‘the Navigator’, King of Portugal, 1
Herbig, Captain, 1
Herero: history and societal organisation, 1;
religion, 1;
traditional style of life, 1;
war with Witbooi Nama, 1, 2;
enter into protection treaty with Germans, 1;
German transgression of customs, 1;
conclude new treaty with Germans, 1;
war with Witbooi ramps up, 1;
succession crisis after Tjamuaha’s death, 1;
Germans settle Windhoek despite their opposition, 1;
Samuel Maharero becomes Paramount Chief and opposes Germans, 1;
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