I am sorry to say that I have multiple issues with this article. Normally I don't criticize authors, but this article made me angry, the reason is probably that I am from Germany. First of all, Germans indeed did

the most horrible things to humans, in their colonies and in Germany 1933-45, which is a shame and till now a burden.

But this article is a form of German bashing and it is a hastily stitched together article in a form of Umair Haque style Journalism when one can call that Journalism. To make it worse it is appearing even in a

publication that is called Illumination-curated. I don't understand what is there curated. I never criticized Umair Haque, because I think, he doesn't care, about critic. I don't think you care much neither, but that

is just a guess. But Umair Haque is another topic.

It seems the author is just thinking in black and white, but here are a lot of different colors in this painting.

1. The author addresses the culprits of these killings only as Germans in a form of "the Germans did this and that". There is not something like "Germans", as the author sees it. While her article is covering 100 years. Germany and Germans changed considerably, in the form of the area and in the form of the inhabitants. In Berlin are living 200 000 people with Turkish ancestry, Germany integrated or is trying to integrate 750 000 refugees from the middle east since 2015. We have of course black germans too, I don't think that they understand that they have now to pay for something that some crazy Germans did over 100 years?

2. The rich Germans! Yes, Germany is rich, far richer than most other countries. In front of 10 years, I heard an actor on the radio talking about when he encountered poor kids in Berlin. He was deeply touched when he heard that the most important wish of some kids where warm shoes for Christmas and even some of them asked him if he could be their daddy. That is Germany too, they are probably now old enough to pay their share for the negotiated reparation.

3. I never heard the term black holocaust? Do we have now colors in holocausts, like green or yellow holocausts? Is there even a checked or impressionistic holocaust? Why is the Herero and Nama genocide a holocaust? To inflate an article? Is genocide not enough? Why is the author calling it forgotten holocaust, something is not forgotten, when politicians are trying to settle or settled it in the last years. One has to to use the past tense if it was once forgotten.

4. It is a conspiracy theory that Germans used the Hereo and Nama genocide as a test for the holocaust. I think historians will broadly deny

that strange connection made by the author.

5. The author put the term holocaust in her article, but not the term for fascistic germans, that would be nazis. It seems it doesn't matter, nazis, germans all the same? For illumination, Jews were living since 100 of years in this area, that 1872 became Germany. By the way, on Wikipedia, it is written that the Nama were used as an auxiliary force against the Herero by German troops. Just to mention that. This Jews were Germans, they had a German passport, they paid taxes, and went into the military, they might even fought in Africa against some tribes.

As a fact under Hitler, he was Austrian, by the way, fascistic Germans/Nazis mass-murdered Germans they didn't like. All sorts of people, gay, communists, gypsies, disabled persons, deserters, and so on.

Germans were victims and perpetrators at the same time, but especially Jews, the Nazis hated them. I might put that in an article of mine, just to mention it.

Humans created religion because of security reasons, religion is formed on the wish to be safe, but that was the death sentence under Hitler for the German and European Jews. Otherwise, there might not have been something we know now as the holocaust.

6. On Wikipedia it is written that Germany became the third biggest European colonial state, just in one year and why? Because it sent his troops to property that belonged to German merchants and acted there as a protector.

It seems there was not one kind of colonialism. I am not a historian, but Colonies were occupied or exchanged between European states or just simply bought. On Wikipedia, it is written, on the German side of Wikipedia, that even two sultans offered their area to the German government, but at that time they Germans denied, it wasn't much into colonialism before 1880 and then Germany was only 40 years in colonialism because then came WW1.

7. A German philosopher, I forgot who, said once, there is no collective

guilt only individual, I would say this is true.

The German nation and its people did a lot of wrongdoing in their history, but this article they don't deserve. Right now the grandson of Wilhelm 2, the emperor who supported much german colonialism and led it into WW1 is right now suing the german nation because the Soviets took away their property in East Germany. The value of litigation is in the millions, even castles he wants back, maybe somebody is asking him for reparation.

At least I didn't understand what the arrow in your picture is hinting at.

Is there some German treasure buried, or is there a portal to another level in your article? But thanks for the article, to give me something to think about, I haven't thought before.