Martin Antonenko
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The Butchery In "Deutsch Südwest" Goes On ...!
After German colonial troops under their notorious Commander-in-Chief General Lothar von Trotha had bloodily suppressed the Herero uprising at the Battle of Waterberg. and Trotha in his gruesome "extermination order" ...
... had announced to drive the Herero into the waterless Omaheke desert and to surrender the entire people there to death by dying of thirst, the German rulers in the colony "Deutsch Südwest-Afrika" (today Namibia) think they are victorious and once again lords of the situation.
They are wrong!
The German general's extermination order ...
... outraged another "great man" (read: tribal leader) in such a way that he officially declared war on the Germans in writing on October 3rd, 1904!
The tribal leader is called Hendrik Witbooi ...
... and his people call themselves "Nama" or "Witboois" - the Germans speak contemptuously of "Hottentots".
Nevertheless, experienced German commanders like the relieved governor, Colonel Theodor Leutwein ...
... who have been in the country for a long time, the military strength of the Nama!
In the battle of the Waterberg against the Herero, a division of Nama fought on the German side who were deployed as snipers and scouts ...:
The Nama department was headed by the German Lieutenant Karl Henning Konrad von Burgsdorff, who spoke their language (here he stands next to Hendrik Witbooi (who can be seen on the far left) ...
... and the members of the association wore black-white-red armbands (the colors of the German flag at that time!) to make them known as German combatants ...:
Unsuspecting, this department camped next to the German "Schutztruppe" at Waterberg when Hendrik Witboois war declaration is notoced in the German field camp ...:
General von Trotha orders immediately to disarm, chain and imprison the Nama ...:
Then he writes Hendrik Witbooi a letter that is no less notorious than the "Herero extermination order" ...:
“To the rebellious Hottentots.
The mighty, great German emperor wants to grant the people of the Hottentots grace so that life may be given to those who surrender voluntarily.
Only those who murdered whites or ordered them to be murdered at the beginning of the uprising have forfeited their lives according to the law.
I make this known to you and also say that the few who do not submit will be the same as the people of the Hereros, who in their delusion also believed that they could deal with the mighty German Kaiser and the great German people successfully have war.
I ask you, where are the Hereros people today, where are their chiefs today? Samuel Maharero, who once owned thousands of cattle, ran across the English border, chased like a wild animal, he has become as poor as the poorest of the field heroes and no longer owns anything.
The same happened to the other great men, most of whom lost their lives, and to the whole Hereros people, who partly starved and thirsted in the sand, partly killed by German horsemen, partly murdered by the Ovambos. (The latter is an outright lie! Note M. R.)
The Hottentot people will fare no differently if they do not voluntarily surrender their weapons. You should come with all of your village communities with a white cloth on a stick and nothing should happen to you.
You will get work and board until the end of the war the great German emperor will regulate the situation in the area again.
Anyone who believes that grace does not apply to them should emigrate, because wherever they can be seen in German territory they will be shot at until all are destroyed.
I set the following reward for extraditing those guilty of murder, dead or alive. For Hendrik Witboi 5000 marks, for the other leaders 1000 marks each. "
At that time 1,000 marks was the multiple annual earnings of a German skilled worker!
But Witbooi and his people don't even think about submitting to the bloody German general!
They disappear into the inaccessible bush and wage their war against the foreign rulers. Hendrik Witbooi had carefully studied the dispute between the Germans and the Herereos and drawn his conclusions from it.
Unlike the Herero, he does not seek open field battles because he has seen that the Germans can then fully exploit their technical superiority.
He had also noticed that the Germans - despite considerable reinforcements arriving from home - had far too few soldiers to completely occupy and secure the entire colony.
Instead, Witbooi wages the "little war", the guerrilla, and the German soldiers have nothing to oppose to his hit and run strategy.
Their furious reprisals either go nowhere or hit bystanders ...
... which leads Witbooi to more determined fighters.
The Nama can defeat the Germans several times in different battles - from June 15 to 17 at Narus on the Kareb River, as Witbooi's subordinate Jakob Morenga ...
... defeated a German detachment under Hauptmann Franz Siebert!
After this battle, the Germans reluctantly and appreciatively call Morenga the "black Napoleon" ...
In contrast to the Hereros, who could be defeated in a very short time with their strategy of open field battle, the Nama manage to assert themselves against the Germans with their tactics for several years.
They raid remote outposts, clumsy ox-wagon convoys with supplies for the Germans ...
...und kleinere Patroillen...:
Und immer wieder schlägt Jakob Morenga zu - und wo er mit seinen Leuten auftaucht, kriegen die Deutschen regelmäßig Schläge.
Am am 13. September in den Zarisbergen gegen ein großes Detachement unter Oberstleutnant Georg Ludwig Rudolf Maercker...
...der dabei selbst schwer verwundet wird, 15. November 1905 die Abteilung unter Major Friedrich von Erkert...
...and so on.
The German losses rise and rise - an end to the conflict is not in sight!
**continued next post**
After German colonial troops under their notorious Commander-in-Chief General Lothar von Trotha had bloodily suppressed the Herero uprising at the Battle of Waterberg. and Trotha in his gruesome "extermination order" ...
... had announced to drive the Herero into the waterless Omaheke desert and to surrender the entire people there to death by dying of thirst, the German rulers in the colony "Deutsch Südwest-Afrika" (today Namibia) think they are victorious and once again lords of the situation.
They are wrong!
The German general's extermination order ...
... outraged another "great man" (read: tribal leader) in such a way that he officially declared war on the Germans in writing on October 3rd, 1904!
The tribal leader is called Hendrik Witbooi ...
... and his people call themselves "Nama" or "Witboois" - the Germans speak contemptuously of "Hottentots".
Nevertheless, experienced German commanders like the relieved governor, Colonel Theodor Leutwein ...
... who have been in the country for a long time, the military strength of the Nama!
In the battle of the Waterberg against the Herero, a division of Nama fought on the German side who were deployed as snipers and scouts ...:
The Nama department was headed by the German Lieutenant Karl Henning Konrad von Burgsdorff, who spoke their language (here he stands next to Hendrik Witbooi (who can be seen on the far left) ...
... and the members of the association wore black-white-red armbands (the colors of the German flag at that time!) to make them known as German combatants ...:
Unsuspecting, this department camped next to the German "Schutztruppe" at Waterberg when Hendrik Witboois war declaration is notoced in the German field camp ...:
General von Trotha orders immediately to disarm, chain and imprison the Nama ...:
Then he writes Hendrik Witbooi a letter that is no less notorious than the "Herero extermination order" ...:
“To the rebellious Hottentots.
The mighty, great German emperor wants to grant the people of the Hottentots grace so that life may be given to those who surrender voluntarily.
Only those who murdered whites or ordered them to be murdered at the beginning of the uprising have forfeited their lives according to the law.
I make this known to you and also say that the few who do not submit will be the same as the people of the Hereros, who in their delusion also believed that they could deal with the mighty German Kaiser and the great German people successfully have war.
I ask you, where are the Hereros people today, where are their chiefs today? Samuel Maharero, who once owned thousands of cattle, ran across the English border, chased like a wild animal, he has become as poor as the poorest of the field heroes and no longer owns anything.
The same happened to the other great men, most of whom lost their lives, and to the whole Hereros people, who partly starved and thirsted in the sand, partly killed by German horsemen, partly murdered by the Ovambos. (The latter is an outright lie! Note M. R.)
The Hottentot people will fare no differently if they do not voluntarily surrender their weapons. You should come with all of your village communities with a white cloth on a stick and nothing should happen to you.
You will get work and board until the end of the war the great German emperor will regulate the situation in the area again.
Anyone who believes that grace does not apply to them should emigrate, because wherever they can be seen in German territory they will be shot at until all are destroyed.
I set the following reward for extraditing those guilty of murder, dead or alive. For Hendrik Witboi 5000 marks, for the other leaders 1000 marks each. "
At that time 1,000 marks was the multiple annual earnings of a German skilled worker!
But Witbooi and his people don't even think about submitting to the bloody German general!
They disappear into the inaccessible bush and wage their war against the foreign rulers. Hendrik Witbooi had carefully studied the dispute between the Germans and the Herereos and drawn his conclusions from it.
Unlike the Herero, he does not seek open field battles because he has seen that the Germans can then fully exploit their technical superiority.
He had also noticed that the Germans - despite considerable reinforcements arriving from home - had far too few soldiers to completely occupy and secure the entire colony.
Instead, Witbooi wages the "little war", the guerrilla, and the German soldiers have nothing to oppose to his hit and run strategy.
Their furious reprisals either go nowhere or hit bystanders ...
... which leads Witbooi to more determined fighters.
The Nama can defeat the Germans several times in different battles - from June 15 to 17 at Narus on the Kareb River, as Witbooi's subordinate Jakob Morenga ...
... defeated a German detachment under Hauptmann Franz Siebert!
After this battle, the Germans reluctantly and appreciatively call Morenga the "black Napoleon" ...
In contrast to the Hereros, who could be defeated in a very short time with their strategy of open field battle, the Nama manage to assert themselves against the Germans with their tactics for several years.
They raid remote outposts, clumsy ox-wagon convoys with supplies for the Germans ...
...und kleinere Patroillen...:
Und immer wieder schlägt Jakob Morenga zu - und wo er mit seinen Leuten auftaucht, kriegen die Deutschen regelmäßig Schläge.
Am am 13. September in den Zarisbergen gegen ein großes Detachement unter Oberstleutnant Georg Ludwig Rudolf Maercker...
...der dabei selbst schwer verwundet wird, 15. November 1905 die Abteilung unter Major Friedrich von Erkert...
...and so on.
The German losses rise and rise - an end to the conflict is not in sight!
**continued next post**
