Worst and most unsucsesfull nation in history

No surprise at all. Everybody knows Nazi SS troops learn from the British genocides on indigenous peoples around the world. Yeap, emotionated, Hitler himself congratulated Brits for theirs service to mankind by cleaning the planet of savages (Hitler's oppinion, not mine)...

Edited by pinguin - 27-Oct-2007 at 04:20

So your question is more about failed states rather than failed nations, right?

Originally posted by Al Jassas One question Pinguin, why do you hate the brits?

Penguin certainly exagerates the role of the British and their past, but he does have a point in saying that some of the Nazi regime policies regarding treatment of the population are based on british actions. I guess its a cycle, now we have others learning from the nazis...

Concentration camps most notably in S Africa but invented for India. The "Criminal Tribes Act" whereby if a certain ethnic group was annoying the Brits, they would declare all members criminals, and anyone could kill them, rape their women and capture their land. The last use of this was in WWII against a group in what is now Sindh province, the Hurs. Also the famine in Bengal back in '43-'44 caused by the diversion of food to Europe, killed 10 million people.

Don't know much about the Brits. Kinda had an empire and blew it then had a socialist state and blew it. Now have a memory and are blowing it.

Edited by Sock Puppet - 29-Oct-2007 at 19:25

There was not need. I was going to explain kindly the facts of my country .

pinguin is right in a way but a bit round the houses, the germans admired us more than any other, they did not want war with us and did not declare war on us, the kaiser was a cousin to our royal family and its well documented that hitler did not envisage war with britain considering us to be kind of aryan brothers whatever the hell that means.

Just a point about the Criminal Tribes Act, the Indian Government still kept it in force for at least 2 years after independance. It was replaced by a very similar act which has only been repealed a few years ago. However as ponted out there is still a similar mind-set against these nomadic peoples in India to-day.

There was a book out about issue of British atrocities in India a couple of years ago: Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis.  Lots of examples there including one of the 1876 Deccan famine caused by the Viceroy's reluctance to reduce any exports to Britain.  The authorities then passed an act which forbid any kind of personal charity or relief work for the farmers which might "interfere with the market fixing of grain prices."  Millions died and thousands were put into labour camps and worked to death.  Following this was a military campaign against the same farmers to "collect all taxes in arrears." 

All this goes even without mentioning the events which galvanized the independence movement (sepoy mutiny, jalianwala bagh massacre etc.)

The British did the same in all their colonies: South Africa, Kenya, Tasmania etc.  as did the Germans and French in their colonies.  That was just the order of the day, the colonized were by definition weaker and deserved whatever was coming to them.  That kind of brutality simply returned to Europe during WW2.  Like pinguin said, it wasn't without precedent.