Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 18:26:30 -0500 From: H-GERMAN EDITOR Dan Rogers Reply to: H-NET List on German History To: Multiple recipients of list H-GERMAN Subject: Genocide in Germany's African Colonies Submitted by: Tom Wolber Dear Colleagues: Numerous genocides have been committed during the 20th century. An ecent article currently circulated by the Associated Press estimates the number of extinguished lives to be 170 million. I would like to find out more about the following two instances involving Germany: "Colonial Africa was an earlier killing ground. In 1904-07 in German South-West Africa, today's Namibia, Germany slaughtered 100,000 Hereros for the tribe's land and livestock. And in 1905-07 in German East Africa, now Tanzania, an estimated 120,000 Africans were killed after some resisted German orders that they grow cotton instead of food crops." What is a good book, in German or English, that would summarize Germany's colonial activities in Africa and critically evaluate them? Where can I find out more details about the above-mentioned mass murders? Has there ever been an attempt to link the colonial holocaust with the Jewish Holocaust between 1933 and 1945? Thank you. Tom Wolber Ohio Wesleyan University [TKWolber@CC.OWU.EDU] .