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    General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha (3 July 1848 – 31 March 1920) was a German military commander during the European new colonial era. As a brigade...
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    German settlers in the area of Okahandja. In August, German General Lothar von Trotha defeated the Ovaherero in the Battle of Waterberg and drove them into...
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  • German football player Lothar Späth (1937–2016), German politician Lothar Spranger, East German footballer Lothar von Trotha (1848–1920), a German military...
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    Germans with their uprising, had initial success. German General Lothar von Trotha took over as leader in May 1904. In August 1904, he devised a plan...
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    the Herero were scattered and defeated. In October 1904, General Lothar von Trotha issued orders to kill every male Herero and drive women and children...
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  • German Imperial Forces were under the command of Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha and numbered just over 1,500. They were armed with 1,625 modern rifles...
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    War I. He was also involved in the Herero Wars as chief of staff to Lothar von Trotha. Franz Martin Chales de Beaulieu was born as son of Eduard Chales...
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    eventually ordered it to be stopped and recalled its mastermind General Lothar von Trotha. One of the few times when Wilhelm succeeded in personal diplomacy...
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    Germany under Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha, crushed the rebellion in the Battle of Waterberg. Earlier von Trotha issued an ultimatum to the Herero...
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    against rule by the German colonial empire. The descendants of Lothar von Trotha and the von Trotha family travelled to Omaruru in October 2007 by invitation...
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    uprising began Wilhelm II replaced Leutwein with the notorious General Lothar von Trotha. In May 1904 he admitted that the Germans had not taken one Herero...
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  • softer tactics, and he was replaced by the more notorious General Lothar von Trotha. In the beginning of the war the Herero, under the leadership of chief...
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  • Okahandja. Over 15,000 German reinforcements under the command of Lothar Von Trotha defeated the Herero force at the Waterberg River in August 1904. Two...
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    Wilhelm replaced Leutwein with Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha; like his predecessor, von Trotha believed that violence would ultimately put an end...
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    settlers, had revolted, causing Kaiser Wilhelm II to dispatch General Lothar von Trotha to wage a "war of annihilation" to exterminate the Herero and Namaqua...
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  • novel A Fatal Tide, Random House, 2014. John M. Chivington Léon Rom Lothar von Trotha Leach (2012), p. 15. Uys, Ian (1992). South African Military Who's...
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    occurred after the fighting had ended. The German military governor Lothar von Trotha issued a punitive order. Many Herero died of disease and abuse in...
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    governor of Gibraltar and former Royal Navy vice-admiral Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha (1848–1920), German military commander in Africa Adrian Marks (1917–1998)...
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    population) perished. The commander of the punitive expedition, General Lothar von Trotha, was eventually relieved and reprimanded for his usurpation of orders...
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    1885. (German commercial interests had forced the Imperial Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, into creating a state-financed colonial administration to support...
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    Namibia), Chief of the General Staff Schlieffen was supportive of Lothar von Trotha's genocidal policies against the Herero and Namaqua peoples, saying...
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  • Africa. With a total of about 15,000 men under Lieutenant General Lothar von Trotha, this uprising was prostrated until August 1904. Most of the Herero...
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    under Lieutenant-general Lothar von Trotha defeated the Herero forces in August 1904 at the Battle of Waterberg. Von Trotha issued the so-called "extermination...
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  • (the father of Hermann Göring), as well as General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha. The 1918 British "Bluebook" documented the genocide that took place...
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    Maharero, rebelled against German colonialism. In August, General Lothar von Trotha of the Imperial German Army defeated the Herero in the Battle of Waterberg...
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    rebelled against German colonial rule. In August, German general Lothar von Trotha defeated the Herero in the Battle of Waterberg and drove them into...
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    June 19 – Mary R. Platt Hatch, American author (d. 1935) July 3 – Lothar von Trotha, German military commander (d. 1920) July 6 – Gábor Baross, Hungarian...
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    General Lothar von Trotha. An estimated 10,000 Namaqua were killed, with estimates for the Herero ranging from 60,000 and 100,000. A copy of Trotha's Extermination...
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  • South Africa. In 1904, the Herero rebelled again. German General Lothar von Trotha implemented an extermination policy at the Battle of Waterberg, which...
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    (1891–1957) Lothar von Trotha (1848–1920) Erich von Tschischwitz (1870–1958) Rudolf Toussaint (1891-1968) Walther von Unruh (1877–1956) Julius von Verdy du Vernois...
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