Hartmann Wegener (2026): The OvaHerero Genocide. Part 1 – Narrated and Described

Published in the PodCast series ‘Matters Of Fact: Facing Our Past’ on 7 February 2026 on the  YouTube channel ‘ManHistPodCast’.

Description

(as below the YouTube video):

“Tom Wegener, a German radio journalist and Wolfram Hartmann, a Namibian Africanist historian talk about 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 conciliation; respectful, evidence-based and soundly researched, reasonable and without one-upmanship or virtue-signalling, FOR Namibians, written, researched and produced IN Namibia, broadcast and disseminated FROM Namibia.

Given the severity of today’s topic – the OvaHerero Genocide – arguably one of the most difficult and painful topics in Namibia’s history, we will, in a first episode provide nuanced, differentiated and academic knowledge followed by a second part with explanations and contextualisation of some of the more contentious issues that crop up in debates of the issue.”

Literature

Matthias Häussler: “From destruction to extermination: genocidal escalation Germany’s war against OvaHerero, 1904”, in: Wolfram Hartmann (2019) (ed.): Nuanced Considerations. Recent Voices in the Namibian-German Colonial History, Windhoek, 2019, p. 133-154.