A shameful day for the German government which has refused to make reparations for a genocide in Namibia, thereby exposing a troubling indifference to crimes of racism, genocide and medical experimentation committed against Africans 100 years ago.
The German colonial era genocide was marked with its own national day of remembrance for the first time in Namibia.
Then German emperor William II was a close relative of the Windsor Kingpins.
The German general, Lothar von Trotha, responsible for the genocide was also active in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_von_Trotha
Thousands were worked to death in concentraton camps for German businesses.
"...the few survivors had been herded into concentration camps and used as labour for German businesses, where many died of overwork, malnutrition or disease. Prior to the uprisings, there were estimated to be 80,000 Herero. The 1911 census records 15,000."
When we talk about covid, covid martial law, covid jab experiments without informed consent we are talking about a system, developed largely in colonial era Germany and Britain and which continued in Nazi Germany, which celebrated von Trotha as a hero.
Pfizer s mRNA covid jabs were developed with the help of the German company BioNtech
The development was funded also by Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-19_vaccine
In June 2020, BioNTech received €100 million (US$119 million) in financing from the European Commission and European Investment Bank.[186] The Bank's deal with BioNTech started early in the pandemic, when the Bank's staff reviewed its portfolio and came up with BioNTech as one of the companies capable of developing a COVID‑19 vaccine. The European Investment Bank had already signed a first transaction with BioNTech in 2019.[187]
In September 2020, the German government granted BioNTech €375 million (US$445 million) for its COVID‑19 vaccine development program.[188]
From media
Dubbed "Germany's forgotten genocide", and described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the systematic murder of more than 70,000 Africans is being marked with a national day of remembrance for the first time in Namibia.
Almost 40 years before their use in the Holocaust, concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments were used by German officials to torture and kill people in what was then called South West Africa.
The victims, primarily from the Ovaherero and Nama communities, were targeted because they refused to let the colonisers take their land and cattle.
Genocide Remembrance Day in Namibia on Wednesday follows years of pressure on Germany to pay reparations.
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For many years Germany did not publicly acknowledge the mass slaughter that took place between 1904 and 1908.
But four years ago it formally recognised that German colonisers had committed the genocide, and offered €1.1bn (£940m; $1.34bn) in development aid to be paid out over 30 years - with no mention of "reparations" or "compensation" in the legal wording.
Namibia declined that offer, calling it "a first step in the right direction" that nonetheless had failed to include the formal apology and "reparations" it was seeking.
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Those colonial lootings and battles were followed by the genocide, which began in 1904 with an extermination order from a German official named Lothar von Trotha.
"This extermination order indicated that they were no longer going to take on any prisoners - women, men, anyone with or without cattle - they were going to be executed," Namibian historian Martha Akawa-Shikufa told the national broadcaster NBC.
This was followed by the introduction of concentration camps, she added.
"People got worked to death, a lot of people died in the concentration camps because of exhaustion. In fact there were pre-printed death certificates [saying] 'death by exhaustion', waiting for those people to die, because they knew they would die."
The remains of some of those who were killed were then shipped to Germany for now-discredited research to prove the racial superiority of white Europeans. Many of the bones have now been repatriated.
Last year, Namibia criticised Germany after it offered to come to Israel's defence to stop it answering a case for crimes of genocide in Gaza at the UN's top court.
"The German government is yet to fully atone for the genocide it committed on Namibian soil," said then-President Hage Geingob.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0jkynyln2o
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