It is the first of the twentieth century, yet no one remembers the genocide of the Herero and Nama in Namibia in 1904.


To meet its colonial expansion, Germany perpetrated genocide in 1904, in Namibia. It is an unrecognized crime that the descendants of the victims, the Herero and Nama peoples are trying to get out of oblivion. This is the story of tens of thousands of men, women and children murdered or died of starvation and exhaustion in camps. The story of human beings simply wiped from the face of a land coveted by other persons. According to historian David Bargueno of Yale University, in the United States, it is the "first genocide of the twentieth century."

Dir. Anne Poiret, France. 2012