between 100-004-1008 keyser vilhelm the 2nd unleashed a shocking war of annihilation on the indigenous herero people. an estimated 80000 herero died as well as several 100 german troops. the germans were buried with military honors and more than 100 years later the graves are still maintained by the german war graves commission. but these crosses don't mark only soldiers' graves the dead include civilian victims of allied bombing raids in the 2nd world war some of them children women and old people. these graves are not a glorification of war but a memorial to the suffering it causes a cemetery is intended to give consolation. abd then obviously it consoles me when somebody embraces me and says the grind it does when that happens here the 2 of you know lit up and sit on a bench together and ask each other how they're doing at the nationalist and then you can say i had a bad night i didn't sleep well i miss him so much toast people comfort each other like you listen when they know when i come here this time of day i'll meet hama dozens people know about each other i said why and that. c