Hereros demand apology, reparations from Germany, but little forthcoming.(Originated from Knight Ridder Newspapers) From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: April 2, 1998| Author: Tucker, Neely | COPYRIGHT 1998 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

WATERBERG, Namibia _ Camped on this burning plateau of rock and sand at the dawn of the century, a German general wrote out a still-reverberating declaration many scholars say sowed the seeds of the Holocaust.

On Oct. 2, 1904, after putting down an uprising by the Herero ethnic group in what was then the German colony of South West Africa, Lt. Gen. Lothar Von Trotha delivered an Auswissungsbefehl, or extermination order.

It read, in part:

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