Kaiser's Holocaust (67 page)

Lindequist Street in Lüderitz in the 1930s. Nazism was enthusiastically embraced by much of the German settler community.

Members of the Hitler Youth and the Pathfinder movement parade in Lüderitz in the 1930s.

Ritter von Epp, as a young infantry lieutenant in colonial uniform.

Von Epp and Hitler greet Mussolini, Bavaria, September 1937.

Von Epp (front row, second from left) reunited with his old friend Hermann Göring (front row, centre), while in American custody at Mondorf-les-Bains in 1946. Epp, awaiting trial, died shortly after this picture was taken.

Aerial photography reveals the enormous graveyard of the concentration camps’ victims, on the outskirts of the Namibian seaside resort of Swakopmund.

The remains of a victim of the Shark Island camp, in an unmarked mass grave in the southern Namib desert, photographed by the authors in 2006.

The bones of the dead emerging from the sand.