BERLIN – For the Wilhelminian Reich it was too humiliating the idea that an African could have mocked their mathematical military geometries with modern guerrilla techniques. A century ago, when Jacobus Morenga, the “black Napoleon” of the revolts in Namibia, defeated the German army with a few men, the generals spread the word that he had studied the strategies of the Prussian general von Clausewitz, tells Uwe Timm in his novel about the brilliant leader half Herero and half Nama .
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