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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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    settlers in the area of Okahandja. In August 1904, 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    the Ozombuzovindimba heritage site. This is the place where in 1904 Lothar von Trotha issued the extermination order against the OvaHerero and Nama people...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Otjiwarongo. After this loss, Leutwein was replaced as military leader by Lothar von Trotha, who brought 15,000 troops and created a bounty of 5,000 marks for...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Omaheke Desert. Estorff was highly critical of commanding General Lothar von Trotha and his decisions, on both strategical and ethical reasons, which...
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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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    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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    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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    remained there until 1884. Thereafter, he was appointed by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck as special commissioner for West Africa. Local German business interests...
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    German officials, soldiers, and settlers, Imperial German Army General Lothar von Trotha launched the Herero and Namaqua Genocide to crush the revolt by waging...
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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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