The Washington DC-registered Herero People's Reparations Corporation has moved to US courts asking for $4 billion from the German government and several commercial corporations, among them the Deutsche Bank, SAF Marine (Woermann Lin) and Terex Corporation. They are accused of cold-bloodedly employing explicitly-sanctioned extermination, destruction of tribal culture, social organisation, medical experimentation and slavery in order to advance their common financial interests. The commercial corporations and the German colonial government formed a brutal alliance that exterminated 65,000 Hereros between 1904 and 1907.