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Namibia - Return to a New Country. Cover Image E-video E-video

Namibia - Return to a New Country.

Schuch, Christoph, (film director.). DEFA Film Library (Firm), (Distributor). Kanopy (Firm), (Distributor).

Summary:

Starting in 1979, nearly 2,000 children were evacuated from Namibia (and refugee camps in neighboring Angola and Zambia) to protect them from the violence of the civil war between South Africa and the socialist liberation movement, SWAPO. In a gesture of solidarity with SWAPO, the GDR accepted almost 500 children for their “protection, education, and socialist training.” After unification in 1990, they were suddenly returned—after Namibia's independence and first all-race free elections, which took place the same week as the Berlin Wall opened.The young people interviewed in this film reflect on the experiences of their childhoods in East Germany, focusing especially on their sense of identity and the difficulties they faced fitting into both European and Namibian societies.

Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
  • Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : DEFA Film Library, 1997.

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General Note:
Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1997.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject: Enthnology.
Social sciences.
African studies.
Foreign study.
Sociology.
Documentary films.
Ethnicity.
History.
Genre: Documentary films.

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