Posted on 12/25/2016 3:08:25 AM PST by Cronos
It has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century: tens of thousands of men, women and children shot, starved, and tortured to death by German troops as they put down rebellious tribes in what is now Namibia. For more than a century the atrocities have been largely forgotten in Europe, and often in much of Africa too.
..In 1884, as European powers scrambled to carve up Africa, Berlin moved to annex a new colony on the south-west coast of the continent. Land was confiscated, livestock plundered and native people subjected to racially motivated violence, rape and murder. In January 1904, the Herero people – also called the Ovaherero – rebelled. More than a hundred German civilians were killed. The smaller Nama tribe joined the uprising the following year.
Colonial rulers responded without mercy. Tens of thousands of Herero were forced into the Kalahari desert, their wells poisoned and food supplies cut. Gen Lothar von Trotha, sent to quell the revolt, ordered his men to shoot “any Herero, with or without a rifle, with or without cattle”
“I do not accept women or children either: drive them back to their people or shoot them,” he told his troops.
..Those who had survived were rounded up and placed in concentration camps, where they were beaten and worked to death in squalid conditions. Half of the total Nama population were also killed, dying in disease-ridden death camps such the infamous site on Shark Island, in the coastal town of Lüderitz. By 1908, only 16,000 remained, historians say.
Germany was forced out of the colony in 1915, but the killings there and in its territories on the east coast of the continent are seen by some historians as important steps towards the Holocaust in Europe during the second world war.
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Well, then a lot of other peoples (the Soviets, the Rwandans, the Red Chinese, the Japanese, etc.) are guilty of trademark infringement.
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Namibia waw very far away from the Arab slave trade
The British, Spanish and Portuguese were less cruel than the German, French, Dutch and Belgian. Which is why the former have had a lasting impact
Also this and what he Belgians did in the Congo or the Feench in Indo china was not expansion of western civilisation. The Belgians and Germans were cruel, kill em all, the French were cruel. The Dutch were only in it for creating captive markets and suppliers.
Well specifically the Prussian led German empire. Germans from other parts were not as ruthless
I disagree. The Germans before the 1800s were not more war pike than their neighbors. The Prussian culture was war like, bit the genes.
The Belgians were by far the worst.
The Prussians didn’t treat Catholic Poles much better (Kulturkampf).
Namibia waw very far away from the Arab slave trade
I think that is true. It also appears that the Bantu tribes displaced the San and there was fairly continual warfare.
Yep.
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