Hartmann Wegener (2024): Matters Of Fact: Facing Our Past – The OvaHerero-German War – Episode 1

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Hartmann Wegener (2024): Matters Of Fact: Facing Our Past – The OvaHerero-German War – Episode 1, PodCast on YouTube

Published on 10 November 2024 on the YouTube channel ‘ManHistPodCast’.

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(as on YouTube):

“Matters of Fact: Facing our past! Tom Wegener, a German radio journalist and Wolfram Hartmann, a Namibian Africanist historian talk on important aspects of Namibia´s controversial and painful colonial past.

The aim is to facilitate a conversation, to disseminate knowledge and to infuse current debates with a sense of reconciliation; respectfully, evidence-based and soundly researched, reasonably and without one-upmanship or virtue-signalling, FOR Namibians, IN Namibia, FROM Namibia.

While not skirting controversy, without moral grandstanding, our intention is to correlate popular and academic knowledge.

The aim is to facilitate a genuine reckoning with Namibia’s sore past and to challenge, in an enriching way, some of our, often divisive, perspectives, at the same time being cognizant of the complexity of Namibian history.

Our point of departure is that colonialism was and remains a crime against humanity, somehow better captured in the all-encompassing German word Menschheitsverbrechen.

Select Bibliography

o Helmut Bley, Kolonialherrschaft und Sozialstruktur in Deutsch-Südwestafrika, 1894-1914, Hamburg 1968.
In English: Namibia under German Rule, London 1971, reprinted Windhoek 1996.

o Horst Drechsler, Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft, Berlin 1966.
In English: Let Us Die Fighting, London 1980.

o Matthias Häussler, Der Genozid an den Herero. Krieg, Emotion und extreme Gewalt in Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Weilerswist 2018.
In English: The Herero Genocide War, Emotion, and Extreme Violence in Colonial Namibia, New York 2021.

o Theodor Leutwein, Elf Jahre Gouverneur in Deutsch-Südwestafrika, Berlin 1906, reprinted Windhoek 1997.

o Nuhn, Sturm über Südwest, Koblenz 1998.

o Gerhardus Pool, Die Herero-opstand 1904-1907, Kaapstad 1979, reprinted Pretoria 2016.

o Gerhardus Pool, Maharero, English and German, Windhoek 1991.

o Preussen / Großer Generalstab, Die Kämpfe der deutschen Truppen in Südwestafrika. Der Feldzug gegen die Hereros, Berlin 1906.”

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