hero of the anti colonial resistance portrait adorns the namibian currency. when hendrik record and chief marrero agreed to make peace german colonial troops should top or attack the nama community at cards with the aim of eliminating which point the attack was a brutal massacre helpless women and children were killed. with by road and now from whose hands is the blood shed coming the entire world should ask . but the world had little interest and looked away. for the people of namibia the situation grew ever more desperate. forced labor and corporal punishment became the order of the day public executions were commonplace.