Anyone live in Lüderitz or Windhoek? My great grandmother's brother was in the Schutztruppe and then worked for the Pomona Diamantengesellschaft in Lüderitz and Pomona after his service. I have been researching his life for years from the US. I'm hoping to get some help locally. I'm willing to pay for your time. I've collected quite a bit of info, but looking for some more.
I've read today in my native language that Extermination camps were created and tested by German Empire few years before it happen in Europe. Wilhelm II Empire developed and tested a "prototype" of an Extermination camps 30 years earlier in Windhoek and Lüderitz, Namibia. It is believed that the genocide claimed as many as 100,000 victims between 1904 and 1907.
One of the big contributors to the crime - Franz von Epp - was later very close to the A. Hitler; He did help him to meet a number of very influential people at the beginning of Nazi party in Munich.
Namibia is located on South West coast of Africa. It is one of least populated countries of modern world - 2.54 people/km2. In comparison their south located neighbour - South Africa has 42.4 people/km2.
However it seems there are attempts to erase this unpleasant fact from history. Especially here on reddit it gets voted down every time.
Few sources: Article in Dailymail, previously voted down for some reason
wikipedia - voted down as well
Review of “Genocide and the Second Reich”
Kaizer's Holocaust - google books
Kaiser's Holocaust - review of a book about this genocide
Kaiser's Holocaust - review in polish
BBC Documentary - Genocide and the second Reich part1
edit: formating, link added
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
Namibia will große Investitionen in der erneuerbaren Energie anregen. Die Idee wäre, ein enormes Gebiet in der Nähe von Lüderitz zu benutzen, um grünen Wasserstoff zu erzeugen. Der Wasserstoff würde die energetische Abhängigkeit des Landes von Südafrika minimieren, die lokale Wirtschaft ausbauen und einen großen Export-Markt erzeugen.
Lüderitz ist eine Stadt im Süden des Landes, die von den Deutschen gegründet wurde, wenn Namibia eine deutsche Kolonie war. Wenn man die Fotos der Stadt online recherchiert, bekommt man den surrealen Eindruck, eine bunte bayrische Stadt auf der Grenze zwischen Wust und Meer zu sehen. Der Tsau Khaeb National Park, der sich südlich von Lüderitz befindet und sonnig und windig ist, zeigt ideale Bedingungen für die Wasserstoffproduktion.
Der Plan fordert jedoch großen Investitionen, die in dem Milliardenbereich sind und aus dem Ausland kommen sollen. Ein privates Unternehmen, die einen großen deutschen Teil hat, sollte das Projekt ausarbeiten und durchführen und die Erzeugung bereits 2026 starten. Die Betriebsanlage sollten außerdem den Port von Lüderitz ausbauen und bis zu 18 tausenden Mitarbeiter einstellen.
Es stellt sich die Frage, ob die notwendigen Investitionen, die etwa 8,3 Milliarden Euro abgeschätzt sind, gefunden werden können, wenn das BIP des Landes 2020 9,4 Milliarden Euro erreichte.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
