Which is a bit ironic, when you consider that in the 1880s, just a few miles from Kaunatjike's apartment, the German Kaiser Wilhelm II ordered the invasion of South-West Africa. This makes his ...

Lüderitz petitioned the German govern- ment, and the German flag was hoisted in the bay for the first time in 1884, to declare German South West Africa.

In the first section of this publication Dr. Ottweiler has collected and re-printed all trustworthy rainfall records-both official and unofficial-from German South-West Africa, and, for the sake ...

From about 1884 to 1915, Germany occupied several territories in Africa. Its colony in German South West Africa, in what is now Namibia, was established to provide more territory for its people, a ...

The killings of Herero and Nama men, women and children have been recognized as the first genocide of the 20th century. Historians say von Trotha, who was sent to German South West Africa to put ...

Near a stuffed seal is a cabinet of pilsner glasses used by those who left the Second Reich for German South-West Africa, as Namibia was known between 1884 to 1915.

SOUTH WEST AFRICA—previous to the War German South-West Africa—is the dry and rather desolate land lying between the Cunene and the Orange Rivers on the north and south, the Atlantic on the ...