Re: A day in the life of Germany

MostlyHarmless schrieb:
>>> Beside, it's only natural that 
>>> Germany want to get a piece of the pie in colonialism. They just
>>> enetered the scene late compared to Dutch, Britain, and France.
>> 
>> And it's good that they had to get out of it at the end of WWI.
>> We don't need _that_ historical baggage, too.
> 
> Germany has colonial baggage- the Hereros, remember.

Just nitpicking:
As far as I know, the Hereros started a long-planned assault on
the Germans 1904 which broke formerly signed contracts. The irony
is that the peace between the former enemies and now allied Nama
& Hereros was based on a arranged meeting 1892 under German
negotiation.
The "baggage" was the excessive harsh reaction after driving the
defeated Hereros in the waterless Omaheke desert where they must
die. The other Hereros which were not in the battle were imprisoned
and ousted.
None of the Ovambo, the Himba, the Damara or the Rehobother Baster
joined the uprising (and were later persecuted, by the way).

I know that the reason "He started it !" has an attitude of
children in the sandbox, but I don't like it if an attackers
attempt fail and as reaction he is comparing his situation
with other, but *innocent* victims 40 years later.

Greets
Thorsten