OT: German West African colony?

[Amy West]

I'm replying just to this posting, but you can take it as a reply to the
entire thread.

You all never cease to impress me. I love hanging out here because
you're all "wicked smaht." Thanks for letting me hang with you guys.

There was a recent story on Deutsche Welle about Germay's refusal to
allow reparation claims for the Herero massacres during the colonial
period. And I believe the article indicated that the Herero weren't the
only ones massacred. (And this again relates to what the scholar was
saying about how Germans tend to view race and racial crimes.)

I'll drop the thread at this point because it is waaaay OT.

---Amy West

On 4/28/12 12:03 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:04:06 -0400
> From:    "Joel S. Berson"<Berson at ATT.NET>
> Subject: Re: OT: German West African colony?
>
> 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
>

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