Malnourished, tired and on the brim of death — that was the norm for nearly six million Jews disposed in concentration camps. But, collective punishment and ethnic cleansing were never an anomaly for Germany; in fact, it had emerged as a motif throughout their history. It was not until the Herero Genocide when Germany had finally realized their ‘dream’ for racial superiority. David Olusoga and Casper Erichsen, authors of “The Kaiser's Holocaust,” present horrific stories of Germany’s genocidal narrative in Namibia. From that, they deduced that dream for aryan supremacy had its founding in Namibia, not World War II. Although lebernsraum had been the mainstay of Hitler’s expansionary policy, it first found itself as the amalgam of Social Darwinist
