A MUST READ. THE FIRST GENOCIDE OF THE 20 CENTURY : EUROCENTRIC ANNHILIATION OF THE AFRIKAN BLOOD IN NAMIBIA 1904 - 1907 WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND EVIL NOR CAN WE COMPREHEND EVIL UNTIL WE MEET THEM AND GET TO UNDERSTAND THEIR NATURE GRADUALLY A CLEAR PICTURE UNVEILED ABOUT WHO THEY REALLY ARE AND WHAT THEY STAND FOR . Medical experiments Further information: Scientific racism and Craniometry Eugen Fischer, a German scientist, came to the concentration camps to conduct medical experiments on race, using children of Herero people and mulatto children of Herero women and German men as test subjects. Together with Theodor Mollison he also experimented upon Herero prisoners Those experiments included sterilization, injection of smallpox, typhus as well as tuberculosis. The numerous cases of mixed offspring upset the German colonial administration and the obsession with racial purity. Eugen Fischer studied 310 mixed-race children, calling them Rehoboth bastards of lesser racial quality. Fischer also subjected them to numerous racial tests such as head and body measurements, eye and hair examinations. In conclusion of his studies he advocated genocide of alleged inferior races stating that whoever thinks thoroughly the notion of race, can not arrive at a different conclusion. Fischers (at the time considered) scientific actions and torment of the children were part of wider history of abusing Africans for experiments, and echoed earlier actions by German anthropologists who stole skeletons and bodies from African graveyards and took them to Europe for research or sale. An estimated 3,000 skulls were sent to Germany for experimentation. In October 2011, after 3 years of talks, the first skulls were due to be returned to Namibia for burial.] Other experiments were made by doctor Bofinger, who injected Herero that were suffering from scurvy with various substances including arsenic and opium; afterwards he researched the effects of these substances by performing autopsies on dead bodies Influence upon Nazi Germany The Herero genocide has commanded the attention of historians who study complex issues of continuity between the Herero Genocide and the Holocaust.[89] It is argued that the Herero genocide set a precedent in Imperial Germany to be later followed by Nazi Germanys establishment of death camps. According to Benjamin Madley, the German experience in South West Africa was a crucial precursor to Nazi colonialism and genocide. He argues that personal connections, literature, and public debates served as conduits for communicating colonialist and genocidal ideas and methods from the colony to Germany. Tony Barta, honorary research associate at La Trobe University Melbourne, argues that the Herero Genocide was an inspiration for Hitler in his war against the Jews.] According to Clarence Lusane, Eugen Fischers medical experiments can be seen as a testing ground for later medical procedures used during the Nazi Holocaust. Fischer later became chancellor of the University of Berlin, where he taught medicine to Nazi physicians. One of his prominent students was Josef Mengele, the doctor who performed genetic experiments on Jewish children at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Ben Kiernan, the director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, pointed out that Eugen Fischer was not the only person who took part in both genocides. Franz Ritter von Epp, who was later responsible for the liquidation of all Bavarian Jews and Roma as governor of Bavaria, took part in the Herero genocide as well. Mahmood Mamdani argues that the links between the Holocaust and the Herero Genocide are beyond the execution of an annihilation policy and the establishment of concentration camps and that there are ideological similarities in the conduct of both genocides. Focusing on a written statement by General Trotha translated as: “ I destroy the African tribes with streams of blood... Only following this cleansing can something new emerge, which will remain. ” Mamdani takes note of the similarity between the aims of the General and the Nazis. According to Mamdani in both cases there was a Social Darwinist notion of cleansing after which something new would emerge. CONCENTRATION CAMPS Herero chained during the 1904 rebellion Herero prisoners of war in 1904. Cover of the 1918 British Bluebook, originally available through His Majestys Stationery Office. In 1926, except for archive copies, it was withdrawn and destroyed following a decision of the then Legislative Assembly. Read more reunionblackfamily/apps/blog/show/17636449-the-first-genocide-of-the-20-century-eurocentric-annhiliation-of-the-afrikan-blood-in-namibia-1904-1907#.Ut_P_lx3uCY.twitter
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