OT: German West African colony?

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/27/2012 05:51 PM, victor steinbok wrote:
>Didn't Germany control Namibia as well?

The discussion quoted below was about German West
Africa, which I couldn't equate to modern
countries, not German South West Africa.  Namibia
had been agreed about earlier.

And yes, Germany's treatment of Namibia was
brutal.  Wikipedia says "Exposés followed in the
print media throughout Germany of the Herero
rebellions in 1904 in German South West Africa
(Namibia today) where in military interventions
between 50% to 70% [citation needed] of the
Herero population perished."  Governing in other
German colonies was pernicious as well.  If some
Africans thought treatment under the Germans was
better than that under the Belgians, French, and
English, one can only be awed by how brutal the
latter three must have been.  (Belgium under Leopold is notorious.)

Joel

>My impression was that Namibia was
>the original "ethnic cleansing"territory--an indirect precursor to later
>practices in Europe.
>
>VS-)
>
>On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > At 4/27/2012 12:54 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> > >Germany had two protectorates, Togoland and Camerun, both of which were
> > >split into British and French zones during and after WWI. Neither
> > territory
> > >has any direct correspondence with current national borders.
> >
> > Thanks, that sounds right assuming they together were larger than any
> > present country.
> >
> > Joel
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