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Chapter 21 - Pages 181 - 190 of "Words cannot be found" German Colonial Rule in Namibia

An annotated reprint of the 1918 Blue Book

Jeremy Silvester & Jan-Bart Gewald BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON 2003

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
South-West Africa. Administrator’s Office. [Report on the natives of South-West Africa and their treatment by Germany] Words cannot be found : German colonial ...

In reply to a request by research.ceda I found the following information. Upon reading it I found it extremely interesting and thought it would make a fine addition to "The Shebeen"

Chapter 21 - Pages 181 - 190 of "Words cannot be found" German Colonial Rule in Namibia

An annotated reprint of the 1918 Blue Book

Jeremy Silvester & Jan-Bart Gewald BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON 2003

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication ...

What is currently happening in Zimbabwe is more than just slightly reminiscent of what happened in the Third Reich during the first few months of 1945 until the final unconditional surrender on the 9th May of that year.

Here was Adolf Hitler, a megalomaniac who had long lost all sense of propriety and, although the major cities had been bombed out and the Russian were baying at the gates of Berlin and, in fact, already in Berlin, Hitler kept on believing in a final victory; in that ...

I believe in serendipity, that is the luck in making unexpected discoveries.

Maybe I should rather use the term “synchronicity” for what I want to write about.

Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally un-related.

The first of these experiences went by without much bother. It was when my family and I were at the Maerua Mall shopping centre (in Windhoek) some time ago and I saw a certain ...

Yes, I know that it has taken me some time to start on a new/old topic.

I am equally aware that an unusual time has elapsed between my last blog and this. But, in my defence, I must add that I have suffered from some form of writer's block.

The situation in Zim had, in the meantime, gone from bad to baddest to worst and then seemed to improve - only to plunge right back into the abyss of iniquity again with the latest announcements.

Well, let me ...