The twentieth century’s first genocide laid the groundwork for the Nazi Holocaust less than four decades later. The lines of transmission from the Nama and Herero to Jews of Germany and Eastern Europe are clear. Indeed, Heinrich Ernst Göring, the jurist, diplomat, and colonial governor of the region that included the Nama and Herero during the genocide, was the father of Hitler’s second-in-command, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, the architect of the German Air Force.