Herero

[Otto]

Let me assure you that is has nothing at all to do with the time span.

It is something that I'm very grateful to Thomas Pynchon for making me aware
about the fact that this part of German history (of course) has been the
subject of re-writing history too.

Otto

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
>
> It's curious that you answer a serious question with a counter question.
I
> guess you mean it as a joke.  But the question was a simple and honest
one.
>
> The answer to both questions would have to define what the "average"
citizen
> of each country would be.  That's probably easier for a German because
your
> country is far more homogenious than the US.  But for the US let's
stipulate
> a high school diploma and some level of continued literacy.  In that case,
> many average US citizens "know" what happened 100 years ago, including our
> attrocities toward native americans, at least in very general terms.
>
> Ghetta
>
> >From: KXX4493553 at aol.com
> >
> > Do you think the average German is aware of what happened to the Herero
> > or is it subsumed by the Nazi era in the public consciousness?
> > >
> > > Just curious
> > >
> >
> >Does the average American know what happened a hundred years ago? We know
> >what happened 90 years ago, 1914, but before that:-)
> >kwp
>