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|type of villain = Genocidal Warlord

|goals = Exterminate the Herero and the Nama (failed)

|crimes = [[Genocide]] [[War crimes]] Mass [[murder]] Slavery [[Torture]] [[Terrorism]]

|crimes = [[Genocide]] [[War crimes]] Mass [[murder]] [[Slavery]] [[Torture]] [[Terrorism]]

|hobby = Killing Herero}}{{quote|The Herero nation must now leave the country. If it refuses, I shall compel it to do so using cannons. Any Herero found inside the German frontier, with or without a gun, with or without cattle, will be shot. I shall spare neither women nor children. I shall give the order to drive them away and fire on them. Such are my words to the Herero people.|Von Trotha's extermination order}}'''Lothar von Trotha''' (July 3rd, 1848 – March 31th, 1920) was an Imperial German general notorious for attempts to exterminate the Herero and the Nama, two ethnic groups in Namibia. He served as governor of German Southwest Africa and Commander in Chief of its colonial forces, in which role he suppressed a native rebellion during the Herero Wars. He was widely condemned for his brutality in the Herero Wars, particularly for his role in the [[genocide]] that led to the near-extermination of the Herero.

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==Legacy==

On August 16, 2004, the German government officially apologized for the genocide and its complicity in it.

== Trivia ==

* Lothar von Trotha and other German colonials based their oppression towards the Herero on the US colonial ideology of Manifest Destiny, which was used to justify the US [[Amerindian Genocide|genocide against Native Americans]]. As a matter of fact, Southwest Africa served as Imperial Germany's only settler colony and von Trotha justified his extermination policy by siting the Native American genocide in his diary ("The natives must give way [''weichen'']--look at America. Either via the bullet or the mission, with alcohol.").

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 |type of villain = Genocidal Warlord
 |goals = Exterminate the Herero and the Nama (failed)
-|crimes = [[Genocide]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>Slavery<br>[[Torture]]<br>[[Terrorism]]
+|crimes = [[Genocide]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Slavery]]<br>[[Torture]]<br>[[Terrorism]]
 |hobby = Killing Herero}}{{quote|The Herero nation must now leave the country.  If it refuses, I shall compel it to do so using cannons.  Any Herero found inside the German frontier, with or without a gun, with or without cattle, will be shot.  I shall spare neither women nor children.  I shall give the order to drive them away and fire on them.  Such are my words to the Herero people.|Von Trotha's extermination order}}'''Lothar von Trotha''' (July 3rd, 1848 – March 31th, 1920) was an Imperial German general notorious for attempts to exterminate the Herero and the Nama, two ethnic groups in Namibia. He served as governor of German Southwest Africa and Commander in Chief of its colonial forces, in which role he suppressed a native rebellion during the Herero Wars. He was widely condemned for his brutality in the Herero Wars, particularly for his role in the [[genocide]] that led to the near-extermination of the Herero.
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 ==Legacy==
 On August 16, 2004, the German government officially apologized for the genocide and its complicity in it.
+== Trivia ==
+* Lothar von Trotha and other German colonials based their oppression towards the Herero on the US colonial ideology of Manifest Destiny, which was used to justify the US [[Amerindian Genocide|genocide against Native Americans]]. As a matter of fact, Southwest Africa served as Imperial Germany's only settler colony and von Trotha justified his extermination policy by siting the Native American genocide in his diary ("The natives must give way [''weichen'']--look at America. Either via the bullet or the mission, with alcohol.").
 [[Category:List]]
 [[Category:Male]]
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 [[Category:Sadists]]
 [[Category:Starvers]]
+[[Category:Deceased]]