{"id":55031,"date":"2020-02-16T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=55031"},"modified":"2020-02-15T12:56:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T17:56:17","slug":"diamonds-vs-self-determination-south-west-africa-and-the-league-of-nations-i-the-great-war-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/02\/16\/diamonds-vs-self-determination-south-west-africa-and-the-league-of-nations-i-the-great-war-1920\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds vs. Self Determination &#8211; South West Africa and the League of Nations I THE GREAT WAR 1920"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ttGPYTRMGf4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Great War<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 15 Feb 2020<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for Curiosity Stream and Nebula: <a href=\"https:\/\/curiositystream.com\/thegreatwar\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/curiositystream.com\/thegreatwar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woodrow Wilson&#8217;s 14 Points and their idea of self-determination didn&#8217;t go unnoticed in the former German colonies like German Southwest Africa. But especially South Africa had other ideas at the Paris Peace Conference and lobbied to take control over future Namibia and its lucrative diamond mines. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SUPPORT THE CHANNEL<br \/>\nPatreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thegreatwar\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/thegreatwar<\/a><br \/>\nMerchandise: <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.spreadshirt.de\/thegreatwar\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/shop.spreadshirt.de\/thegreatwar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES <\/p>\n<p>Emmett, Tony. 1999. <em>Popular Resistance and the Roots of Nationalism in Namibia, 1915-1966<\/em>. Basel, Switzerland: P. Schlettwein Publishing.<br \/>\nOlusoga, David, and Casper W. Erichsen. 2011. <em>The Kaiser\u2019s Holocaust: Germany&#8217;s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism<\/em>. London, UK: Faber and Faber.<br \/>\nOnselen, Charles van. 1980. <em>Chibaro: African mine labour in Southern Rhodesia 1900-1933<\/em>. London, UK: Pluto Pr.<br \/>\nPirio, Gregory. 1988. &#8220;The Role of Garveyism in the Making of Namibian Nationalism.&#8221; In <em>Namibia 1884-1984: Readings on Namibia&#8217;s History and Society: Selected Papers and Proceedings of the International Conference on &#8220;Namibia 1884-1984: 100 Years of Foreign Occupation; 100 Years of Struggle&#8221;<\/em>, London 10-13 September, 1984, Organised by the Namibia Support Committee in Co-Operation with the SWAPO Department of Information and Publicity, edited by International Conference on &#8220;Namibia 1884-1984: 100 Years of Foreign Occupation; 100 Years of Struggle,&#8221; Brian Wood, Namibia Support Committee, United Nations Institute for Namibia, SWAPO, and Department of Information and Publicity. London: The Committee in cooperation with United Nations Institute for Namibia.<br \/>\n&#8220;Report on the Natives of South-West Africa and Their Treatment by Germany.&#8221; 1918. 1918. <a href=\"https:\/\/ufdc.ufl.edu\/UF00072665\/00001\/1j\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/ufdc.ufl.edu\/UF00072665\/00001\/1j<\/a>.<br \/>\nSilvester, Jeremy, and Jan-Bart Gewald, eds. 2003. <em>Words Cannot Be Found: German Colonial Rule in Namibia: An Annotated Reprint of the 1918 Blue Book. Sources for African History<\/em>, v. 1. 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