No one said there wasn’t.
Doesn’t mean this horribly shameful part of colonial history should be ignored anymore than it already is.
Seems like the Germans entire national history has either been being a burden to others or to themselves.
Wow, stereotype much?
Should we talk about the English treatment of the Irish and Scots, or about what France inflicted on the rest of Europe in the Napoleonic wars, or Russia's colonial treatment of most of its empire, or Japan's ... ?
Let him who is without sin ...
The insurgency was defeated in the late teens when the French began using aircraft to gas the natives.
The British also gassed the Iraqis after their revolt in the 1920's.
Our successful strategy against the Comanche and Sioux was simply to kill all the buffalo, poison the water sources and wait for starvation to run its course.
Fighting against savages is not easy: you can't 'bomb them back to the stone age' because they are already near that level already. And they are mobile and hardy, so it's difficult to defeat them in battle except mano-a-mano, which reduces your technical advantage to almost nothing.
Unless you kill enough of the total population, you aren't going to win.
The Germans launched their expedition against the Herrero as a punishment for refusal to submit to German authority. They had little choice in the means used against such an adversary if they wanted that effort to be successful.