The Forgotten Holocaust

Or how Germany killed thousands of Black people and hid it from the world until it no longer could

Like the Tulsa Race Massacre in America, the horrifying details of Germany’s Black Holocaust have recently come out into the mainstream — meaning that this part of history that was intentionally omitted from history books and what you and I were taught in school, is finally seeing the light of day. Between 1890 and 1915, Germany tortured, sexually exploited, conducted unethical medical experiments on, and murdered tens of thousands of black people in concentration camps in a part of Southwest Africa now known as Namibia.

The despicable cruelty and depravity of these acts are difficult to fathom and recount, without becoming emotional, but it is important for the world to know of yet another time in history were black bodies were subject to the most inhumane forms of violence by white supremacy in all its unabated and despicable cruelty.

To this day, the artificial borders that they delineated with no regard or respect for human life, as well as the interests and centuries-old alliances of the people that inhabited the land, have caused countless civil wars, disputes, poverty, and suffering across the continent. These colonial powers went on to run vicious, oppressive, and exploitative regimes in these colonies with often the sole objectives of exploiting and even exterminating the tribes to which the land belonged.

With the move from an agrarian to an industrialized economy and the massive population influx from rural to urban areas that ensued, Germany's cities experienced significant overcrowding in the late 19th century. The vast lands and natural resources of Africa were seen as an attractive solution to…

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