the German massacre of the Ovaherero in 1904 is widely recognized as the first genocide of the twentieth century.""
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This thread is historically accurate.
I want to add an excerpt from the book: "The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich" by Elizabeth Baer which provides more information about this particular historical subject and period:
""After Chancellor Bismarck agreed to a Protectorate for the African holdings, Heinrich Göring was sent to Southwest Africa as imperial commissioner in April 1885. Göring’s son, Hermann, was to be the future Reichsfieldmarschall of the Third Reich; he absorbed the racial hierarchies that created the genocidal gaze at his father’s feet. Göring began immediately to pressure the chiefs of various ethnic groups to sign so-called Protection Treaties.
In fact, these treaties offered no protection and were often negotiated in such a way that the indigenous people were cheated out of their land. As more and more land was wrested from the indigenous people, two of the largest tribal groups—the Herero and the Nama—responded by resistance to these “Protection Treaties.”
Armed combat between the indigenous people and the Germans began in a sporadic fashion, continuing for a decade. It is estimated that “by the end of 1903, 3.5 million hectares out of a total of 13 million had been lost” by the Herero to German settler colonialism and railroad construction.
As cattle herders, in a land with scarce water supplies, the Herero faced a future that would prevent them from continuing their traditional way of life, which, tragically, did occur as a result of the genocide, the concentration camps, and German appropriation of land and cattle.
In January 1904, the Herero rose in rebellion against the encroaching German military and settlers.
They had some early successes in these encounters. But, after considerable planning and importing more soldiers, the Germans staged the Battle of Waterberg on 11 August 1904, a decisive victory over the Herero that intentionally forced those who had survived the battle into the desert, where thousands died of thirst and starvation.
A guerilla war with the Nama followed, beginning in October 1904. The three men who served as leaders of their people—Samuel Maherero of the Herero, Hendrik Witbooi and Morenga of the Nama—will be the subjects of chapters in this book.
Though the war was protracted until 1907, due to the savvy guerilla warfare waged by the Nama, the Germans eventually prevailed. Large concentration camps and a death camp were established in the aftermath of the wars, where forced labor, inadequate food and shelter, and disease resulted in yet more deaths.
A genocide, though the term had not yet been invented, was committed; 80 percent of the Herero people and 50 percent of the Nama perished.
While there are some scholars who maintain that the near extinction of these two groups in Namibia does not qualify as a genocide, the general agreement among historians is that "the German massacre of the Ovaherero in 1904 is widely recognized as the first genocide of the twentieth century.""
So what now the Zionists do to the Palestinians is a copy of what the German colonialists did to the African Herero.
They genocide them for daring to resist.
Zionism is a western colonial project that is now using all the genocidal brutality of the old western colonialism. This in part explains why the western regimes are now supporting the Zionist project.
They see in it a reflection of their own history they have never really abandoned.
As Kehinde Andrews wrote in his book: “The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World”:
“We urgently need to destroy the myth that the West was founded on the three great revolutions of science, industry and politics. Instead we need to trace how genocide, slavery and colonialism are the key foundation stones upon which the West was built. The legacies of each of these remain present today, shaping both wealth and inequality in the hierarchy of White supremacy.
The Enlightenment was essential in providing the intellectual basis for Western imperialism, justifying White supremacy through scientific rationality. In other words, the West invented scientific theories to ‘prove’ the superiority of White people and acted as if they were truth. It is also in the Enlightenment that we can see the roots of the new age of empire, the universal application of colonial logic.”
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