Posted on 07/08/2015 9:28:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The speaker of the German parliament on Wednesday said the slaughter of indigenous Namibians a century ago constituted a genocide that stemmed from a race war.
Norbert Lammert, writing in a guest column for news weekly Die Zeit, said the Herero and Nama peoples had been systematically targeted for massacre by German imperial troops.
Using todays standards of international law, the crushing of the Herero revolt was genocide, he wrote.
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I certainly never knew this.
When you go "game on" - you better be prepared to play the game.
This is not nearly as well known as it ought to be. Basically, a dress rehearsal for the Holocaust.
Um, I think that some people might say the same thing about Settlers and American Indians, no?
Sometimes people tend to go into areas they shouldn’t. There are people in this world who like being with their own, and are not appreciative of being over come by greedy outsiders. Sounds racist, but most people are happier being amongst their own kind and being left alone to decide their own destiny. From the looks of things it sounds like the Germans may owe more reparations??
The Germans were brutes. Must have been all the philosophy they read. Philosophers were kinda like rock stars to them.
It was pretty bad. However, Namibia today has largely moved past that and is home to many Germans both native and people that have moved there from Germany (about 2% of the population). They have many prominent positions in industry, and I recall that one was mayor of Windhoek, or might be still.
I know. Unfortunately typing on a phone, I accidentally deleted the first half of my post, and got to lazy to do it over again.
But part of me knew that part of the second attempt would stand out! :P
It’s reasonable to point out that the Zulus under Shaka had in the previous century completely wiped out entire tribes and caused a billiard ball effect across a good chunk of the continent that killed millions.
AFAIK, nobody calls his actions genocide.
Perfectly reasonable.
But where to apply for reparation payments for *that*?
Easier to go for the PC-induced guilt-trip idiots with deeper pockets.
In any case, this whole thing was precipitated by Namibian *demands* (sound familiar?). Somehow that part seems to have been lost in the headline.
I’ve read many opinions describing Shaka’s actions as genocide. But Shaka did not rule the German Empire.
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