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100 Years of Silence: The Germans in Namibia
directed by Halfdan Muurholm and Casper Erichsen; produced by Halfdan Muurholm (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2007), 1 hour 8 mins
One hundred years ago, the Herero people of Namibia were nearly exterminated by German colonial soldiers in what has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century. Herero men, women and children were rounded up like cattle and put into Germany's first ever concentration camps. Four years later, three-quar...
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directed by Halfdan Muurholm and Casper Erichsen; produced by Halfdan Muurholm (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 2007), 1 hour 8 mins
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One hundred years ago, the Herero people of Namibia were nearly exterminated by German colonial soldiers in what has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century. Herero men, women and children were rounded up like cattle and put into Germany's first ever concentration camps. Four years later, three-quarters of the entire Herero nation had perished at the hands of German colonialists. The Nazis used the experiences from the German conce...
One hundred years ago, the Herero people of Namibia were nearly exterminated by German colonial soldiers in what has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century. Herero men, women and children were rounded up like cattle and put into Germany's first ever concentration camps. Four years later, three-quarters of the entire Herero nation had perished at the hands of German colonialists. The Nazis used the experiences from the German concentration camps in Namibia as well as their experiments in "racial science" when they formulated the Final Solution during World War II a few decades later. Today the Hereros claim billions of euros from the German government in repatriation for the genocide. The experience of one family is described by a descendant, a 23-year-old Herero woman named Georgina. She has a fair complexion and a green tinge to her eyes. Georgina is aware of the fact that her great-grandmother was raped by a German soldier and now wants to confront the demons of her own genetic past. High School College Adult
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Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Halfdan Muurholm
Author / Creator
Halfdan Muurholm, Casper Erichsen
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Topic / Theme
Herero and Namaqua Genocide (Namibia) (1904-1907), History curriculums, Ethnic cleansing, Internment camps, Genocide, Imperialism, Herero and Namaqua Genocide, Namibia, 1904-1907, History, Documentation of Crimes, Humanities, Germans, Herero
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Copyright © 2007. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Timewatch, Palestine: The First Intifada
produced by Antonia Benedek, fl. 1976-1989, in Timewatch (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 1991), 2 hours 1 mins
The Intifada, as the Palestinians call their uprising against the Israeli military occupation of their land, has been characterised by acts of violence from both sides. However, 50 years ago it was the British who were the focus of a rebellion by Palestinian Arabs. Timewatch investigates that uprising, talking to...
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produced by Antonia Benedek, fl. 1976-1989, in Timewatch (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 1991), 2 hours 1 mins
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The Intifada, as the Palestinians call their uprising against the Israeli military occupation of their land, has been characterised by acts of violence from both sides. However, 50 years ago it was the British who were the focus of a rebellion by Palestinian Arabs. Timewatch investigates that uprising, talking to many elderly Palestinians, Britons who served in the Palestinian Police Force and General Hackett of the British Army in Palestine.
Field of Study
World History
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Antonia Benedek, fl. 1976-1989, Juliet Stevenson, 1956-
Date Published / Released
1991
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Series
Timewatch
Speaker / Narrator
Juliet Stevenson, 1956-
Topic / Theme
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1948 -- ), Israeli, Palestinian, Guerrilla warfare, Decolonization, Immigration and emigration, Imperialism, Rebellions, Arab-Israeli Conflicts, 1949-, Imperialism and Colonialism, Migration and Diaspora, War and Violence, Politics & Policy, History, Documentation of Crimes, World History, Israelis, Palestinians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), 21st Centur...
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1948 -- ), Israeli, Palestinian, Guerrilla warfare, Decolonization, Immigration and emigration, Imperialism, Rebellions, Arab-Israeli Conflicts, 1949-, Imperialism and Colonialism, Migration and Diaspora, War and Violence, Politics & Policy, History, Documentation of Crimes, World History, Israelis, Palestinians, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000), 21st Century in World History (2001– )
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