On 12 May 1883 the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa modern Namibia -
the beginnings of Germany's African Empire. As colonial forces moved in their ruthless
punitive raids became an open war of extermination. Thousands of the indigenous people were
killed or driven out into the desert to die. By 1905 the survivors were interned in
concentration camps and systematically starved and worked to death. Years later the people
and ideas that drove the ethnic cleansing of German South West Africa would influence the
formation of the Nazi party. "The Kaiser's Holocaust" uncovers extraordinary links between the
two regimes: their ideologies personnel even symbols and uniform. The Herero and Nama
genocide was deliberately concealed for almost a century. Today as the graves of the victims
are uncovered its re-emergence challenges the belief that Nazism was an aberration in European
history. "The Kaiser's Holocaust" passionately narrates this harrowing story and explores one
of the defining episodes of the twentieth century from a new angle. Moving powerful and
unforgettable it is a story that needs to be told.
