It’s always seemed to me that its colonial amnesia revealed something very bleak about Germany’s political bureaucracy: until 2015, the official position remained that since the genocide of the Herero and Nama happened before the Genocide Convention, the term could not be applied retrospectively.
It’s always seemed to me that its colonial amnesia revealed something very bleak about Germany’s political bureaucracy: until 2015, the official position remained that since the genocide of the Herero and Nama happened before the Genocide Convention, the term could not be applied retrospectively.