A Deterritorialized History: Investigating German Colonialism ...
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promised death for all Herero found within the colony: “either by the bullet or via (the)<br />
mission through brandy.” Drechsler, Let us Die Fighting, 148. Trotha also promised to<br />
accomplish the: “vernichte die aufständischen Stämme mit Strömen von Blut und Strömen<br />
von Geld.” Behnen, 294. Horst Drechsler, Aufstände in Südwestafrika: der Kampfe der<br />
Herero und Nama, 1904-1907, gegen die deutsche Kolonialherrschaft (Berlin: Dietz,<br />
1984), 180, 185. Nor was this the first time extermination had been advocated.<br />
Woodruff D. Smith, The <strong>German</strong> Colonial Empire (Chapel Hill: University of North<br />
Carolina Press, 1978), 80.<br />
90 Hull identifies the steady development of a “final solution” to the revolt in: Hull, 147-<br />
149. Bley, 163-164. The 1905-1907 Maji Maji revolt in East Africa had a similarly<br />
catastrophic effect upon the population where a conservatively-estimated 75,000 Africans<br />
where murdered during the suppression. Iliffe, Tanganyika under <strong>German</strong> Rule, 20-21.<br />
Sunseri, “Baumwollfrage,” 32. Hassing, 381.<br />
91 Prein, 102, 107. The war ended with an estimated 75-80 percent mortality of the<br />
Herero peoples from an original population between 60,000 and 80,000. Hull, 144.<br />
Tilman Dedering, “The <strong>German</strong>-Herero War of 1904: Revisionism of Genocide or<br />
Imaginary Historiography?” Journal of Southern African Studies 19, 1 (1993): 81-82.<br />
92 The Kontrollverordnung and Paßverordnung are from: Zimmerer, 68-69.<br />
93 There were even plans to relocate particularly restive tribes such as the Namaqua to<br />
other <strong>German</strong> colonies, but economic reasons rendered this impossible. R1001 9<br />
Deutsch-Südwestafrika. 9.24 Verwaltungssachen. 9.24.2 Angelegenheiten und<br />
Aufstände der einheimischen Stämme. Mflm 2141. Aufstand im Namaqualand und<br />
seine Bekämpfung. B. 9. Pläne zur Umseidlung von Hottentotten in andere deutsche<br />
Kolonien.<br />
94 Zimmerer, 282.<br />
95 Thaddeus Sunseri, “Slave Ransoming in <strong>German</strong> East Africa: 1885-1922,” The<br />
International Journal of African Historical Studies 26, no. 3, (1993): 486.<br />
96 Richard A. Voeltz, “The European Economic and Political Penetration of South West<br />
Africa: 1884-1892,” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 17, no. 4<br />
(1984): 633-636.<br />
97 Dedering finds evidence of this in the Ferreira Raid of 1906: Tilman Dedering, “The<br />
Ferreira Raid of 1906: Boers, Britons and <strong>German</strong>s in Southern Africa in the Aftermath<br />
of the South African War,” Journal of Southern African Studies 26, no. 1 (March 2000):<br />
52.<br />
98 R 1001 3 Etats- und Rechnungswesen – 3.1 Allgemeines. Kolonialetats. Mflm 83270<br />
/9550. Letter from Imperial Chancellor Bülow to DKG, 30 October 1902. R 8023<br />
145