Forty years before the Holocaust, Germany used concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments to torture and kill more than 70,000 Africans in what was then called South West Africa. German colonizers targeted the Ovaherero and Nama communities because they refused to give up their land and cattle. Carolyn Beeler speaks with Jephta Nguherimo, the founder of the Herero People’s Memorial and Reconstruction Foundation, about the decadeslong fight to have the 20th century’s first genocide recognized and what the descendants of the victims are still demanding from German government.
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