Hamakari, Namibia. General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha, sent by Kaiser Wilhelm II with orders to “restore order by any means necessary,” encircles, bombs, and finally machine-guns the Herero he manages to find. The survivors flee into the desert. In his report, he writes: “The arid desert was to complete what the machine guns had begun: the extermination of the Herero people… I believe that the nation as a whole must be annihilated.” A dress rehearsal for the Third Reich…
