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

@Meron
Germany invented the retirement pension, the foundation stone of every welfare state. So, yes.

@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.

@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.

@dennis @sccook @Meron Damn, Haber was a very strange man.

@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