Most of the Herero fled to the almost waterless Omaheke, an offshoot of the Kalahari Desert. With a total of about 15,000 men under Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha, this uprising was prostrated until August 1904. In January 1904, the Herero and Namaqua genocide began in the German colony German South West Africa.
Social Democratic Party of Germany political communications had circulated the term Vernichtungskrieg in order to criticize the action against the insurgents during the Herero Wars. Development Herero uprising įurther information: Herero and Namaqua genocide The legitimacy and trustworthiness of the opponent is negated, demoted to status of a total enemy, with whom there can be no understanding, but rather devotes the totality of one's own " Volk, Krieg und Politik Triumph der Idee des Vernichtungskrieges" (people, war and politics triumph of the idea of the war of annihilation). Another characteristic of a war of annihilation is its ideological character and the rejection of negotiations with the enemy, as the historian Andreas Hillgruber has shown in the example of the Eastern Front of World War II fought between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. The state organization of the enemy will be smashed. The Hamburg Institute for Social Research social scientist Jan Philipp Reemtsma sees a war, "which is led, in the worst case, to destroy or even decimate a population", as the heart of the war of annihilation. War of annihilation is defined as a radicalized form of warfare in which "all psycho-physical limits" are abolished. The goal is not like other types of warfare, the recognition of limited political goals, such as recognition of a legal status (such as in a war of independence), control of disputed territory (as in war of aggression or defensive war), or the total military defeat of an enemy state. The goal can be outward-directed or inward, against elements of one's own population.
A war of annihilation ( German: Vernichtungskrieg) or war of extermination is a type of war in which the goal is the complete annihilation of a state, a people or an ethnic minority through genocide or through the destruction of their livelihood.
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