A Namibian tribe that came close to being exterminated by Germany's colonial forces nearly a century ago is suing the German government and two companies for £2.6 billion. The Herero People's Reparation Corporation, based in Washington, claims that the Deutsche Bank and a shipping company, the Woermann Line, now known as SAFmarine, assisted the Berlin government "to relentlessly pursue the enslavement and genocidal destruction" of the Herero people between 1904 and 1907. Germany had colonised the territory of South West Africa, a parched, sprawling land made up largely of two deserts and rocks, in 1884, encouraging white settlers to farm...