Let Nature Take Its Course

The view offered by a kind friend that there were a 

host of other influences, makes me feel even better:

“The deaths of women and children in the British Boer War

camps were primarily caused by rampant infectious

diseases, insanitary condition and overcrowding, hardly

the same circumstances as specific exterminations practised

by the SS, or the 1904 German colonists in SW Africa”

“So while the British were certainly part of it they were by no

means the root to its whole cause.”

There is NO logical connection between the CAUSE - burning the

country and putting people in dirty camps without provisions -

and the EFFECT of that very people dying, these people caused

their own deaths  because they were meant to keep themselves

alive – oh how UNGRATEFUL they were!

The EVIL people who failed to survive are GUILTY of bad hygiene

and suicide, UNGRATEFUL for British kindness providing tents

for the people and There Was No Need For Special Means To Kill

“The Herero and Nama were specifically targeted by the Germans,

their deaths were orchestrated” while the British merely let nature

take its course, the people died of their own accord – hooray!

What sweet solace to know that the invaders did not plan to

kill anybody, the people were so UNRULY that they died all

by themselves - these prisoners should be INDICTED for

LACK of RESPECT for the British who wanted them to live

without hygiene, water, food and basic provisions – which

obviously is nothing serious and in no way should be construed

as involving any intention for the people to die; those in charge

should be hailed as saviours as they expected the starving

people to DUTIFULLY survive

Chapter 2

Exceptional Space: Concentration Camps and Labor Compounds

in Late Nineteenth-Century South Africa

Lindsay Weiss