Exactly. Fuck the German government & their pitiful offer.
“The entire process shows that Germany controls everything,” he said. Either Germany is blackmailing Namibia and sees the whole thing as a PR coup, or they see the Namibian government as a puppet."
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/0…
“The entire process shows that Germany controls everything,” he said. Either Germany is blackmailing Namibia and sees the whole thing as a PR coup, or they see the Namibian government as a puppet."
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/0…
All genocides are horrific but there are few that compare to the unequivocal cold-blooded industrial extermination of the Jews in the Shoah. The genocide of the Herero peoples in Namibia is absolutely at the same level, a dress rehearsal in the 1900s for what followed in the 40s.
Germany has offered €1.1bn over 30 years, ie at present value about €500m. The German budget in 2020 was €508 billion. So in return for the deliberate mass murder of 85% of the entire Herero population, Germany has offered to pay one thousandth [0.1%] of one year's spending.
The German commander Von Trotha publicly declared his intention to exterminate every Herero man, woman and child in the territory, and came very close to doing just that. Hundreds of decapitated heads were sent to Germany as souvenirs. This was a Final Solution in all but name.
Von Trotha was directly appointed by Kaiser Wilhelm II, was in constant communication with him throughout the genocide, and had the support of the German state every step of the way. The derisory German offer now - mainly a relabelling of existing aid monies - is contemptible.
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