LOTHAR VON TROTHA
(Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha)
His troops exterminated 90% of the Herero people. In addition, German Doctors did hideous experiments on the Herero. WWII German mass murders had German precedents.
General Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha was a German military commander during the European new colonial era. As a brigade commander of the East Asian Expedition Corps, he was involved in suppressing the Boxer Rebellion in Imperial China, commanding troops which made up the German contribution to the Eight-Nation Alliance. He later served as governor of German South West Africa and Commander in Chief of its colonial forces, in which role he suppressed a native rebellion during the Herero Wars. He was widely condemned for his brutality in the Herero Wars, particularly for his role in the genocide that led to the near-extermination of the Herero.
