Hartmann Wegener (2026): The OvaHerero Genocide. Part 2 – Questions and Context

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.

In this episode, problematic questions and issues arising from the first part of this podcast are raised and contextualised.”

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.

Katjivena, Uazuvara Ewald Kapombo (2020): Mama Penee: Transcending the Genocide, Windhoek