Friedrich Jansson proudly presents …

... a report by US government official whereby "Ausrottung" does not imply killing. Or so Jansson interprets the official’s statements.

Denial of the Herero Genocide (Part 1)

There is a genuine academic debate about whether the Germans committed a genocide against the Herero or were simply a brutally repressive colonial administration. But there is also a denier school, purely negationist in intent, that uses familiar denier tricks. This series deals with the latter.

This first blog summarizes some of the major parallels between Holocaust denial and the negationist denial of the genocide of the Herero people by the German colonial administration in 1904-05. An excellent article on this subject, Entangled History and Politics: Negotiating the past between Namibia and Germany by Reinhart Kössler, can be downloaded here.

I will focus on Kössler's arguments alongside some comments of my own.