Meron Estefanos

Namibia on Wednesday marked its first-ever Genocide Remembrance Day to honor more than 100,000 Ovaherero and Nama people who were systematically killed by German colonial forces between 1904 and 1908.

Serious question, has Germany EVER been on the right side of history?

https://english.news.cn/africa/20250528/a7ac17587d454331a9ac324513ede9c5/c.html

Namibia marks first-ever Genocide Remembrance Day

May 28, 2025 at 7:17pmWeb
Show threadschratzeMay 28, 2025
@Meron no, we haven't. And I'm afraid that if AfD takes over and starts the next genocide, there'll be nobody around to invade and stop us
Show threaddougroudouvariMay 30, 2025
@Meron
Nope
Show threadStephen CookMay 30, 2025
@Meron
Germany invented the retirement pension, the foundation stone of every welfare state. So, yes.
Show threadWeltzeitgeistMay 30, 2025

@sccook @Meron 'The Haber process,[1] also called the Haber–Bosch process, is the main industrial procedure for the production of ammonia.'

Without this process, there wouldn't be billions of human beings alive. Quite the opposite.

Show threaddennisMay 30, 2025

@wackJackle @sccook @Meron

According to Labatut, Haber regretted the Nitrogen process more than his invention of mustard gas as ultimately it will make the world uninhabitable for animal life.

Show threadWeltzeitgeistMay 30, 2025
@dennis @sccook @Meron Damn, Haber was a very strange man.
Show threadchicoMay 30, 2025

@wackJackle
That is correct, but one of the main drivers of synthetic ammonia production in the second decade of the 20th century was the demand for explosives for war.

Industrial production of ammonia started in 1913 raising to a rate of 20 tonnes per day in the following year. Without it Germany wouldn't have stood a chance, since mineral nitrate sources were controlled by the Allied powers.

@sccook @Meron

Show threadAdrian Schönig May 30, 2025
@Meron One thing that Germany did well was its post WW2 constitution, which centres on human rights. It places strong emphasis on human dignity and protecting the individual from excessive power of the state. Constitutions from other countries (especially older ones) typically focus more on structuring state powers and protecting the state from individuals.
Show threadpoldemoMay 30, 2025
@Meron 🤔 good question.
More so, what is the right side of history and when had been any (major) nation on it? GB? France? US? Russia? Italy? Netherlands? Spain? Portugal?
Yes, once: when finally defeating Germany in WWII. But for how long?
🤔
Show threadAccordionBruceMay 30, 2025

@Meron @timnitGebru
Once again I only know history by way of my bizarre personal lens of the accordion

But if Germany only started existing in the 1870s (after the Franco-Prussian War wiped out the French 🪗 industry) it hasn’t had much time to compete against the other genocidal colonial-era European states

Seems like it only came to exist out of a quest for centralization of power, which is not a great start towards human rights prizes

Show threadajfMay 31, 2025
@Meron German renewable energy feed in tariffs brought forward the commercial viability of wind and solar by a few years, keeping the possibility alive of non-civilisation ending climate change.
Show threadRADman11Jun 1, 2025
@Meron Has our species?