Here’s a 2005 documentary that omits mentioning that Peter Thiel’s father, who apparently feared the 1968 anti-Nazi student movement, fled Germany to raise his son within the residual white-supremacist enclave (German genocide) of Namibia.

Described by the BBC as the story of Germany’s forgotten genocide. This powerful documentary by David Adetayo Olusoga took a sensitive and uncompromising look at the tragic circumstances leading to the massacre of three quarters of the Namibia population in German concentration camps built in Africa.

Systematic extermination of the local population is still being researched, yet little of the work seems to connect to Peter Thiel’s statements about being raised as a German boy escaping anti-Nazism to grow up instead in Hitler-loving Swakopmund.

Over time, Imperial Germany refused to tolerate the independence and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples. In 1904, after a military victory against an Ovaherero force at Waterberg, the German general Lothar von Trotha issued an extermination order against all men, women, and children of the Ovaherero. Those who survived the waves of violence that followed the orders were rounded up at ‘collection points’ across the colony and taken to concentration camps, where they were subjected to brutal conditions and forced labour.

Swakopmund was so racist, so directly aligned with support for Hitler, that even the South African government warned about the extremist enclave there in 1939.

The decision to move there after Hitler was defeated, in other words, should be framed entirely in the context of “early apartheid” that turned into the overt support for Nazism through the 1970s.

How strong were the post-WWII ties to Hitler that drew the Thiel family to relocate there, fleeing the end of Nazism?

Here is the news from 1976, as Peter Thiel was placed by his father into a school “More German than Germany“.

SWAKOPMUND, South‐West Africa —’Heil Hitler!” said the black gas station attendant matter‐of‐factly to the department customer, raising his right arm to the traditional height.

Extreme.

Notably, while Peter Thiel was raised in this environment to invest family “fortunes” into the unregulated American tech industry and become a billionaire, museums of the genocide cite a lack of funding.

One of the smallest museums in Africa might be its most important: A curator’s battle to commemorate Germany’s forgotten genocide in Namibia

While survivors of the genocide have tried to pursue officials, like the Germans who erected monuments celebrating genocide, perhaps Peter Thiel should be investigated more thoroughly as a living monument to genocide?

The Marine Denkmal (Marine Memorial) in Swakopmund, Namibia, commemorates the German imperial soldiers who fought against Indigenous Namibians in the Herero Wars (1904-1908). […] Opposition to removing the monument stems from the ideological reservations of German-speaking communities in Swakopmund, as well as fears about its economic consequences, mainly in terms of the memorial’s appeal to tourists.

If we investigate monuments promoting German genocide, shouldn’t we investigate the Germans today who directly benefited from and continue to advocate for the ideologies those monuments represent?

…I wanted to give Peter the benefit of the doubt, so I mustered the courage to go to his room to ask him about it. He said, with no facial affect, that apartheid was a sound economic system working efficiently, and moral issues were irrelevant. He made no effort to even acknowledge the pain the concept of apartheid could possibly raise for me, a Black woman.

To put it another way, more investigative work should go into the “economics” Peter has claimed his family’s success was based upon:

…when Peter proudly entered Stanford he bragged to at least two classmates that apartheid “works” and was “economically sound”. He clearly was referring to his father’s work in apartheid-era Namibia

What kind of economic activity is available to Nazis fleeing post-WWII Germany to flourish in a post-genocide apartheid enclave?

What does ‘economically sound’ mean to Peter Thiel when the foundation is extermination orders and forced labor camps?

And what connections exist between this family history and his current ACTS 17 political organizing – particularly its funding sources and ideological framework?