Bristol Radical History - Namibia: Genocide And The Second Reich

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Tue 6 November 2007 // 19:30

(Weds 7th / 7.30pm / £3/£4)

Meet the director, David Olusoga.

"The ghosts of the Namibian genocide have been reawakened. They return to haunt liberal post-war Germany, and in doing so they force Germany to wake-up to a very uncomfortable fact that the dark racial theories that helped inspire the Nazis run much deeper into German and European history than most people want to acknowledge".The powerful documentary by David Olusoga (BBC) is the story of Germany's forgotten genocide. It takes a sensitive and uncompromising look at the tragic circumstances leading to the massacre of three quarters of the Namibia population in German concentration camps built in Africa, and exploring current calls for land reforms where most of Namibia's commercial land is still owned by European farmers.

This event replaces the screening of Death Proof as advertised in the printed programme.