Thread by @TruueDiscipline

1/ Thread on In Defense of German Colonialism: amazon.com/Defense-German…

2/ Africans wrote letter protesting the end of German rule in Cameroon

3/ Based on a study of island nations, colonialism seemed to be associated with more economic growth.

4/ Also political freedom:

5/ The principles that embodied the "spirit of Berlin"

6/ Surge in transnational cooperation after Berlin confrence:

7/ Disputing the idea that Europeans made arbitrary borders:

8/ Contrasts to South Africa ethnic policy:

9/ Edmund Morel thought German colonial rule had highest standards:

10/ Author's take on the Nama and Heroro

11/ Who was responsible?

12/ When Herero leader died he was given German style funeral

13/ German conservation in east Africa:

14/ One historian saw the investment in the local people as unique:

15/ The colonies in East Africa were run with few civil servants:

16/ More on ratio between civilians and soldiers:

17/ In the pacific, there was also little military presence:

18/ Some chiefs petitioned the King of Spain to reinstate German colonialism:

19/ Author sees attack on German liberal mission abroad as an attack on liberal mission at home:

20/ Nazis critiqued the Jews involved in German colonialism

21/ East German role in communist Yemen:

22/ People focus endlessly on crimes committed by colonial powers, less on intra African crimes. Why? Deep pockets of the west.

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