I put together a cut of the German Decolonize Law documentary series to show how international law was explicitly reconstructed in the 19th century to classify the Ovaherero, Nama, and others as legally non-existent so land theft and forced labor could be carried out with full legal approval. The film examines how that legal architecture directly shaped modern Namibian realities: The concentration camp at ǃNamiǂNûs (Shark Island) and forced labor building the Lüderitz railway. The divide in Windhoek between Katutura and Ludwigsdorf. Why the 2021 Joint Declaration between Germany and Namibia has been so deeply controversial among victim communities, prompting traditional leaders to take legal action against the government. As part of my compiling and cleanup of the original docuseries, I created a slew of multi-lingual subtitles using a local translation system in this video. I am almost certain there are errors throughout several of the lower-resource subtitle tracks, and if you have any corrections you’d like to make (or if I accidentally uploaded the wrong subtitle file for a language) please let me know so I can fix that oversight.   submitted by   /u/LegislativeLariat [link]   [comments]