V2nd - Chapter 9 - another crackpot theory

[alice wellintown]

Between 1905 and 1908 the majority of the Herero survivors
were incarcerated in concentration camps and allocated as
forced laborers to civilian, administrative and military
enterprises alike. The majority of the camp inhabitants were
women. In the aftermath of the war, Imperial Germany sought
to transform the Herero and the survivors of the Nama-German
war into a single amorphous black working class. The bulk of
the Herero society came to be organized around Herero
mission evangelists, who were effectively the only Herero
who were permitted to travel and read and write. A large
number of Herero orphans were taken as servants into the
German army. Here they found employment and social
structure.

In 1915 the German occupation of Nambia was replaced by
South African occupation. On account of the South African
invasion, the young Herero who had become German soldiers
were left leaderless and without the social structure that
had given them status and identity. Left in limbo these
young men created a new social structure, based on that
which they knew best, the German army.

*Herero Heroes* by Jan-Bart Gewald




On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Great find, very much on point.
>
> "V." is V-1, Gravity's Rainbow is  . . . .
>
> On Oct 17, 2010, at 3:05 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> Aircraft in Africa & Abraham Morris:
>> Aircraft  as a new weapon system, were applied and tested by a number
>> of Western states during the inter-war period. Aircraft proved the
>> supreme weapon system in dealing with massed "feudal" armies. Our
>> first case study is close to home. What become known as the
>> Bondelswart Uprising occurred a brief three years after the end of the
>> First World War; and immediately showed the value of a tactical air
>> force to a still skeptical public.
>>
>> The Bondelswart tribe, located in modern Namibia, protested against a
>> South
>> African government decision not to concede certain land claims. A force
>> was raised
>> in May 1922, when the captain of the tribe refused to deliver a number of
>> his
>> followers who were allegedly guilty of misdemeanor and theft. The force
>> initially
>> comprised two field guns and one hundred mounted troops. This force
>> surrounded
>> and bombarded Haib, the Bondelswart stronghold, on 29 May. On 30 May the
>> settlement surrendered after their leader, Abraham Morris, together with
>> approximately fifty followers had escaped through the cordon. Morris hoped
>> to join
>> Nicolaas Christiaan and his men, and make a stand in their ancient
>> stronghold - the Fish River Canyon. In an attempt to prevent the
>> insurrection from
>> spreading to the Richtersveld, an airstrip was prepared near Steinkopf and
>> two aircraft
>> dispatched to the area from Pretoria. On 2 June, one of these aircraft
>> spotted smoke
>> in a saucer in the mountains; and the Bondelswart were bombed and
>> machine-gunned from the
>> air. Some 20 were killed and more wounded: the survivors learned to hide
>> by day
>> and move at night. They ate their last donkey on 4 June and in a skirmish
>> with
>> ground troops on the same day, Morris was killed. What remained of his
>> followers
>> surrendered on 7 June. Over the following weeks, the two aircraft made
>> intimidation flights over all the reserves around Keetmanshoop.
>
>