THE HOLOCAUST IS OVER WE MUST RISE FROM ITS ASHES

the Herero’s. “They are beasts...they slaughter innocent white settlers,” explainedGraf Ludwig Rowenthlow, according to Haaretz, a hundred years later. “Africanstear out women’s intestines while they are still alive and hang them on trees.” This waspropaganda, typical of any evil colony anywhere in the world. The same historicalreport in Haaretz quotes the officer August Bosehart: “The negro is a wild beast . . .It can be taught to be respectful only under the gaze of the tamer and his whip.” 9Anyone who reads the testimonies that were collected by the survivors cannot helpbut be reminded of the Jews. Replace the African names with Jewish ones: Mendel,Yankel, Antek, and Abba, and here is a stunning introduction to the Shoah. TheGermans, for example, surrounded about thirty thousand Herero—men, women andchildren—together with their cattle, in a place called Watterberg, shelling and shootingthem for hours. The only escape was to the arid Kalahari Desert. The German forcesthen surrounded the desert, erected watchtowers, and poisoned wells inside andaround it. Then, as if that was not enough, von Trotha issued the following order:“Any Herero found within German borders, with or without a gun, with or withoutcattle, will be shot. I will receive no women and children. They will be expelled backto their people or shot. This is my word to the Herero people, signed the GrandGeneral of the Powerful Emperor.” According to the report in Haaretz: “The GrandGeneral ordered his soldiers to shoot above the heads of women and children toforce them to flee. This was obviously cynical, as he allowed them to escape only todie in the desert. Anyone who tried to flee the desert was murdered.” 10 It was anAfrican Babi Yar.Much time passed between the day that Berlin issued an amnesty order sparing theremaining Herero and the day it finally arrived by a slow ship; there were no faxesand e-mail, no airplanes or text messages. The lucky survivors were sent on deathmarches to concentration camps. One third of them died on the way, and half wouldeventually die of typhus, smallpox, pneumonia, exhaustion, and other diseases—exactly like my grandmother, who also “died naturally of typhus” in Teresienstadt.Those who survived the marches worked in forced labor, including railwayconstruction and quarry work. They were whipped and beaten endlessly. TheGerman settlers waited for the Herero slave laborers, just as German industrialists didforty years later, profiting billions of Reich marks. The killings of warcapable mencontinued. Women were raped and forced into sex slavery to satisfy their Germanmasters.