Abstract
Abstract The war between German settlers and the Herero people in former German South-west Africa was one of the most terrible of all colonial wars. A visit to the little cemetery at Waterberg—halfway between Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia, and the well-known Etosha National Park—is a reminder of bygone evil days. Here, there are many gravestones with the names of young German men who died during those battles, while in another part of the cemetery a copper plate erected in the 1980s by a German war veterans association commemorates the memory of their fallen—but nameless—adversaries. There is a steep slope beyond the cemetery, and high up on the slope perches a large and impressive house, built long ago as a holiday home for the governor-general of German South-west Africa. The house is now a restaurant and centre for Waterberg’s small, but species-rich, nature reserve.
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