Namibia - Genocide and the Second Reich FULL MOVIE UNCUT
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/namibia_genocide_and_the_second_reich_full_movie_uncut
Europeans have committed atrocities in just about every continent and yet there still seems to be very little recognition or remorse. Not only is there little recognition or remorse, there is...
▻http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4OZ7Xc5pWQ
I wonder how many people in #Europe know that Germans committed #genocide, created concentration camps and began racist medical experiments in #Namibia approximately 30 years before Hitler came to power. (...)
Namibia became a German colony in 1884 and remained so until the end of World War I. “In 1920, the League of Nations mandated the country to South Africa, which imposed its laws and, from 1948, its apartheid policy.”(…)
Namibia gained independence as recently as March 1990.
(...) Some of the skulls sent to Germany for racist experiments were only just returned to Namibia in 2011.
une guerre propulsée par le concept (pré-nazi) de Lebensraum
▻http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9r%C3%A9ros
#histoire #accaparement_des_terres #viol aussi
(à noter, les Anglais aussi avaient créé des camps de concentration, en Afrique du Sud : ▻http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War#Concentration_camps_.281900.E2.80.931902.29 ; mais ici ça commence à se transformer en camps d’extermination et d’#esclavage ; certains étaient même des camps privés appartenant à des entreprises allemandes)
Absence complète de mémoire : un des charniers sert aujourd’hui de piste de quad, et Shark Island, le premier grand camp d’extermination de l’histoire, est désormais un camping municipal. Il n’y a pas une plaque commémorative, pas un musée. Sur le port, dans une petite boutique, on peut en revanche acheter des memorabilia.