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==Legacy== | ==Legacy== | ||
On August 16, 2004, the German government officially apologized for the genocide and its complicity in it. | 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:List]] | ||
[[Category:Male]] | [[Category:Male]] | ||