The gaiety of this photo showing the colourful dresses and unusual headwear of today’s Herero women is in stark contrast to the torment their predecessors went through.
CMI article image and caption.
Posted on 09/14/2016 7:50:12 AM PDT by fishtank
Herero genocide
by Marc Ambler
Like most visitors to Namibia,1 one of the memorable pictures I carried away was of the noble-looking Herero people. Their women wear colourful, voluminous Victorian-style dresses and hats, and the men wear uniforms on ceremonial occasions. How terribly sad it was to learn that 100 years ago, their great-grandparents had been the victims of the first genocide of the 20th century.
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That the German settlers and a high-ranking officer like General von Trotha would hold to these ‘superior race’, ‘survival-of-the-fittest-through-“cleansing”-of-the-weakest’ views is hardly surprising. Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (which is subtitled By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life) had been translated into German in 1875, and his evolutionary theories had for decades been avidly promoted to all and sundry by the popular books and theatrical presentations of Ernst Haeckel.6 The German nation had also been subjected for many years to the ‘God-is-dead’ atheism of Nietzsche.7
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The gaiety of this photo showing the colourful dresses and unusual headwear of today’s Herero women is in stark contrast to the torment their predecessors went through.
CMI article image and caption.
Yes, because we all know there was never any notions of racial superiority and resulting genocide prior to Darwin. /sarc
The interesting twist is that these costumes were copied from the Germans. Well, except for the hats.
No one said there wasn’t.
Doesn’t mean this horribly shameful part of colonial history should be ignored anymore than it already is.
Seems like the Germans entire national history has either been being a burden to others or to themselves.
It took old Chuckie Darwin to give the Western world its race-based chattel slavery alright. /more-sarc — anachronism
I doubt that even Charles Darwin was as Darwinistic as his followers, to state an oxymoron. Theories of evolution were used as an excuse to elide the divine design, not truly as a reason.
The Left feels the same self-superiority over the Hetero people.
Wow, stereotype much?
Should we talk about the English treatment of the Irish and Scots, or about what France inflicted on the rest of Europe in the Napoleonic wars, or Russia's colonial treatment of most of its empire, or Japan's ... ?
Let him who is without sin ...
So if there was class war before Marx, does that excuse Marx of responsibility for the class wars he inspired?
Stalin and Mao directly applied Marx’s doctrine. Hitler’s application of Darwin was much more indirect, and was an extension of pre-existing notions of genetic superiority.
Looks like any Sunday in Atlanta to me!
Excellent
Let’s see, who disproved this whole distortion of evolutionary theory. Oh, that’s right other evolution scientists. Son of a gun, can you imagine that.
“Wow, stereotype much?”
No. Just a person that has read enough of their history from unification till today to know that they were either spoiling for a fight or needing other nations to keep them from causing trouble, that is when they aren’t slapping themselves around.
“Should we talk about the English treatment of the Irish and Scots, or about what France inflicted on the rest of Europe in the Napoleonic wars, or Russia’s colonial treatment of most of its empire, or Japan’s ... ?”
Well this article isnt about them. Post one and go hog wild.
If you want a real shocker, look at the Belgians in Congo.
And if you want a real, real shocker, look at the Congolese in Congo...
The insurgency was defeated in the late teens when the French began using aircraft to gas the natives.
The British also gassed the Iraqis after their revolt in the 1920's.
Our successful strategy against the Comanche and Sioux was simply to kill all the buffalo, poison the water sources and wait for starvation to run its course.
Fighting against savages is not easy: you can't 'bomb them back to the stone age' because they are already near that level already. And they are mobile and hardy, so it's difficult to defeat them in battle except mano-a-mano, which reduces your technical advantage to almost nothing.
Unless you kill enough of the total population, you aren't going to win.
The Germans launched their expedition against the Herrero as a punishment for refusal to submit to German authority. They had little choice in the means used against such an adversary if they wanted that effort to be successful.
A pithy, intelligent comment on an otherwise uninspired, imbecilic thread.
“The Germans are a remarkable people, if you don’t include world wars.”
- William F. Buckley Jr. praising his Plath handheld computer ca. 1981.
Thanks for clearing that up. I never understood the Greek and Roman proclivity for enslaving others until you explained it to me.
From reading about the American Indian wars, the British and Boer wars against Africans , the French efforts in Algeria and morocco and the Belgium work in the Congo, all of the colonizing powers were pretty tough cookies in their own way.
Part of the problem was in the initial stage of any conflict the Europeans would go about a limited war, that if fight along European conventions and rule observance. The opponents would not, the native populations waged total war, and prisoners of war were taken for torture. Colonial Women and children were generally killed, often by brutal means. It was the native way of saying “don’t come here”
The reactions of the Europeans to those sorts of activities were brutal, but that is the way man is. Read some of Chinese military history, you will find them to be just as brutal. In the US The Nat Turner uprising that involved killing women and children, with the example of Haiti in 1804 resulted in a very harsh attitude by southerners.
That said, the Germans have always had a blind spot when it comes to partisan war, be it Africa, Russia, the Balkans, France in the winter of 1870/71 or Belgium in the summer of 1914. They simply view those who do not fight in uniform according to the rules of war as deserving of no regard in nay way. Must be a cultural trait, likely goes along with the very precise way they live and think.
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