In subsaharan Africa where the tsetse fly killed horses, the British army required African men to work as porters for the army. They only gave them starvation rations and deaths among the porters from malnutrition, starvation, and disease hit 20%.
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That's about the same casualty rate as among combat troops on the western front, apparently. Britain worked those men to death.
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yeah, you think wwi was a horrific meat grinder and then you find out how the various empires used their colonies as body factories and oh hey! it's even fucking worse!
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WW1 is the textbook example of Foulcut’s Boomerang, all the horror and meatgrinders used on the colonies eventually gets back to the core.
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Every year I say to my (history) students “sometimes we teach you about things when we think you are too young to know the whole truth, but you assume you know the whole truth until you really examine it. Today we’re going to really examine [x], and figure out what’s missing.”
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About 5 years ago, I had a student who was seriously so angry for the first two month of my class. Every day she was like Wait. Hold up. Really?! She was so indignant that it was sort of beautiful. And then she’d go home and ask her mom & dad “did you KNOW ABOUT THIS?!”
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The graveyards in ... Ypres, I believe .... included a whole section of Crescents instead of crosses.
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They do at Verdun as well. 3 sections to the cemetery.... Jewish, Christian and Muslim.
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They really don't. Gloss over all the 'troublesome' parts, put their ancestors in the best light, etc. As I've said before - I was PISSED when I found out the Trail of Tears wasn't just 'The Indians had to move to new homes but it was a hard journey and some of them died'.
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