Lothar von Trotha

Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha (3 Yuli 1848 - 31 Maris 1920) kwamandan sojan Jamus ne a lokacin sabon mulkin Turawa. A matsayinsa na kwamandan birgediya na rundunar sojojin kasashen gabashin Asiya, ya shiga cikin murkushe 'yan damben boksin a birnin Qing na ƙasar Sin, inda ya jagoranci sojojin da suka hada da gudunmawar Jamus ga Ƙungiyar ƙasashe takwas. Daga bisani ya zama gwamnan Jamus ta Kudu maso yammacin Afirka da kuma kwamandan sojojinsa na mulkin mallaka, wanda a cikinsa ne ya murkushe 'yan tawayen ƙasar a lokacin yakin Herero. An yi Allah wadai da irin ta’asar da ya yi a yakin Herero, musamman saboda rawar da ya taka wajen kisan kiyashin da aka yi wa Nama Khoekhoe da Herero

Iyali
Lothar von Trotha ya kasance na wani fitaccen dangi mai daraja na Saxon. Ya yi aure sau biyu; Oktoba 15, 1872 ya auri Bertha Neumann, wanda ya mutu a 1905.

A ranar 19 ga Mayu, 1912, bayan ya yi ritaya daga hidima, ya auri Lucy Goldstein-Brinckmann (1881-1958), aure na biyu ga duka biyun. Lucy ta fito daga dangin Yahudawa na Frankfurt waɗanda suka tuba zuwa Kiristanci. Trotha yana da 'ya'ya maza biyu, waɗanda suka mutu ba tare da sanin zuriyarsu ba.

Sana'a
An haife shi a Magdeburg, babban birnin lardin Saxony, Trotha ya shiga cikin sojojin Prussian a shekara ta 1865 kuma ya yi yakin Austro-Prussian da Franco-Prussian Wars, wanda ya sami lambar yabo ta Iron Cross ta 2nd Class. Ya auri Bertha Neumann a ranar 15 ga Oktoba, 1872.

Ya kasance kwamandan Lauenburgisches Jäger Batallon Nr. 9 na tsawon shekaru biyu a Ratzeburg kafin a tura shi Afirka a 1894.

A shekara ta 1894 an nada Trotha kwamandan sojojin mulkin mallaka a Jamus ta Gabashin Afirka kuma ya yi nasarar murkushe tashe-tashen hankula a can ciki har da Tawayen Wahehe. Yayin da aka buga shi na ɗan lokaci zuwa Imperial China a matsayin Kwamandan Rundunar Sojojin Gabashin Asiya, yana da hannu wajen murkushe Tawayen dambe. Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany a ranar 3 ga Mayu, 1904 aka nada shi Kwamanda a Afirka ta Kudu maso yammacin Jamus kuma aka umarce shi da ya murkushe tawayen Herero na asali.
kashe-kashen mutuwar masu mutuwa da kukan mahaukata...sun yi ta maimaitawa a cikin maɗaukakiyar dawwama.” Dabarun Trotha sun bambanta da na shugabannin Herero, waɗanda a cikin su, sun yi taka tsantsan don tabbatar da cewa sojoji ne kawai aka kaiwa hari.Drechsler, Horst (1980). Let Us Die Fighting: The Struggle of the Herero and Nama Against German Imperialism, 1884–1915. London: Zed Press. p. 150

Hanyoyin Trotha sun haifar da kokewar jama'a wanda ya sa shugaban gwamnati Bernhard von Bülow ya tambayi William II, Sarkin Jamus, don sauke Trotha daga umurninsa.
"Talking about genocide: Namibia 1904 - Peace pledge union (British pacifist site)"

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