"By the end of the German campaign, in 1908, more than 65,000 #Ovaherero, more than two-thirds of the population, and 10,000 #Nama, around half the population, had been killed. Their ancestral lands were not returned to the survivors. [..] In 1902, less than 1 per cent of South-West Africa was owned by Europeans; after the #genocide the figure was more than 20 per cent."
#Namibia, auf dessen Boden #Deutschland vor genau 120 Jahren den ersten #Genozid des 20. Jahrhundert begangen hat, in dessen Folge zehntausende #Herero & #Nama gestorben sind, der in Deutschland noch immer nicht aufgearbeitet ist,
formuliert zurecht, dass Deutschland aus der Geschichte nichts gelernt hat,
wenn Deutschland immer noch nicht dazu in der Lage ist verurteilende Worte zu finden, wenn über 23000 Menschen in #Gaza getötet worden sind und der Rest vertrieben ist und im Elend leidet.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1904, the #Herero population of #Namibia began a revolt against oppressive colonial control by #Germany. In response, the Germans built #ConcentrationCamps, did medical experiments, and began a #genocide. Within a few years, 75% of the Herero were killed.
Im Jahr 1904 erhoben sich die Herero und Nama gegen die deutschen Besatzer. Der Aufstand wurde brutal niedergeschlagen und endete im Völkermord. Bis heute gibt es keine Aussöhnung zwischen Namibia und Deutschland. Von Stephan Ueberbach.
"there is a rule - and it is certainly not unique to Germany - that you don’t compare things to the Holocaust. There is a paradox: we imagine the Holocaust in great detail, but we conceive of it as fundamentally unimaginable. It is the kind of evil that we cannot comprehend. But anything that happens in the present is, by definition, imaginable."
@inquiline Casual comparisons should be eschewed and it would be both tactful wise to set a rather high bar to avoid giving gratuitous offence. However a comparison with what happened to the #herero people forty years before - in some cases at the hands of the same individuals as participated in the #holocaust subsequently - would seem entirely appropriate.