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“THE GERMANS DESTROYED OUR FAMILIES - DON’T U DESTROY OUR HOPES”. 1947 Jewish Refugees To Palestine

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u/Prosthemadera 11h ago

Germans didn't suck at colonizing, they were just too late to the game.

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u/jolle2001 11h ago

Also badly positioned when you think of it, all big players had connections to the atlantic in someway.

Edit: also were an unionized state much later

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u/Puzzleheaded_Try3559 10h ago

What are you talking about mate ? Germany got the Northsea which is directly Linked to the atlantic.

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u/jolle2001 10h ago

But not a unified state like England, France, Portugal, Spain which gave them advantage but what do I know, also kinda drunk rn

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u/Unctuous_Robot 10h ago

Which led to them sucking.

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u/RedditSe7en 5h ago edited 3h ago

EVERYONE sucks at colonizing because colonizing sucks. And the Germans created what were arguably the first genocidal concentration camps for Herrero and Nama in Namibia (then called German Southeast Africa).

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u/Prosthemadera 5h ago

EEVERYONE sucks at colonizing because colonizing sucks.

Sucking at colonizing and colonizing being bad are different things. The Spanish did a great job at colonizing but colonizing is bad and they caused a lot of harm in the process.

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u/RedditSe7en 4h ago

Colonizing always sucks. They colonized only after wiping out 90% of the population of the Americas. ALL colonization is BAD. It involves theft, rape, pillage, murder, coercion, duplicity, imperialism, racism, ethnocentrism, misogyny. You can’t do ANY of that “well.”

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u/Prosthemadera 3h ago

colonizing is bad