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Condor Flight DE2294, Munich to Windhoek, Namibia, the present dayAnja set down the papers and rubbed her eyes.
The lights were on and the flight attendants were preparing the cabin for landing. As a university history graduate, she was aware of Britain’s pioneering use of concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer War, and of the scorched earth policy employed against farms, but this was the first time she had seen any primary source material relating to these tactics. It was distressing, and when she had read about Gerda’s stillborn baby being exhumed in a search for hidden weapons she had wept enough for the young flight attendant to enquire if she was all right.
The aircraft was on its final approach and Anja looked out the window, not with the sense of excitement of th
