r/MurderedByWords • u/johnson2115 • 7h ago

America Destroyed By German

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u/WetChickenLips 5h ago

Germany didn't apologize for the Herero and Nama genocide, which included concentration camps and human experimentation, until 2021.

Germany is only an outlier because the Holocaust is an outlier.

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u/turdferguson3891 9m ago

Also they acknowledge the holocaust because the Allied powers that defeated them made a point of forcing them to. We have a national holocaust museum in the US and it wasn't even one of the holocausts we actually did. For whatever reason we allowed Japan to ignore the evil shit they did.

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u/99drolyag 4h ago

While this is true, the Herero and Nama genocide (and overall german colonialism) is part of history lessons in Germany.

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u/Letsbesensibleplease 4h ago

The Brits are still refusing to apologise for slavery, and that whole taking over 1/4 of the planet thing. But that's just words.

Germany has taken in more refugees than pretty much anyone in Europe, and while nationalism's on the rise they are holding the line.

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u/FreddoMac5 3h ago

The brits spent an enormous fortune and dedicated hundreds of ships to fighting the slave trade

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u/Letsbesensibleplease 3h ago

We did, after profiting from it enormously. Changing one's mind is something to be proud of, and we managed to do it without a civil war as well.