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This study recounts the reasons why the order for the Herero genocide was very likely issued by the Kaiser himself, and why proof of this has not emerged before now. In 1904, the indigenous Herero people of German South West Africa (now Namibia) rebelled against their German occupiers. In the following four years, the German army retaliated, killing between 60,000 and 100,000 Herero people, one of the worst atrocities ever. The history of the Herero genocide remains a key issue for many around the world partly because the German policy not to pay reparations for the Namibian genocide contrasts with its long-standing Holocaust reparations policy. The Herero case bears not only on transitional...
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"When the old man died, the thronging citizens of Milan stopped and lined the streets to watch his funeral cortege go by. As the hearse passed, there rose from all those throats the sound of music--the famous chorus of exiles from Verdi's great success, Nabucco. For never has a composer so captured the loyalty and devotion of his fellow countrymen as did Giuseppe Verdi with his twenty-nine operas in his eighty-seven years. From his village birthplace, through years of training under the local organist and finally in Milan, Verdi was catapulted into early prominence. After Nabucco, his third work, opera after opera came from his pen until his great three, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, and La Travi...
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