Words Cannot Be Found: German Colonial Rule in Namibia: An Annotated Reprint of the 1918 Blue Book

by South-West Africa, Jan-Bart Gewald, Jeremy Silvester

The 1918 "Blue Book" Report on the Natives of South-West Africa and Their Treatment by Germany, is based on the voluntary statements taken under oath of no less than 50 African witnesses. This testimony was combined with numerous German colonial documents to produce, not only a stinging indictment of German colonial policy in German South West Africa, but also the first detailed eyewitness accounts of the first genocide of the twentieth century. However,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004129812
• ISBN13: 9789004129818
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.5"