The myth of German genocide against the Herero

The Germans blocked them so they could not return to more fertile land, that is a kind of entrapment too.

To not call the camps for death camps is just a question of semantics. In fact they where death camps even if there where no gas chambers. To let people succumb because of starvation, deseases and brutal treatment is as much genocide as to gas them to death.

So the seizure of a few farms thousands of miles from Germany, gives German authority a blank check to round up women and children of an entire ethnic group, put them into camps where almost all of them starved to death or died of disease, poison the wells and water sources of Hereros and prevent them from reaching arable land?

Genocide cannot be justified by a small-scale attack. Genocide simply means you are attempting to destroy a nation through direct extermination. It either took place, or it didn't. It doesn't have pretexts or exceptions which nullify the application of the word to describe a particular situation.

You're employing the logic of someone who, in an act of self-defense, not only kills someone who is threatening him, but then goes off and starts rounding up all members of the person's family, uncles aunts cousins nephews and neices, locks them in his basement, and then says hey, they died of starvation and disease. Gee, you think?

So genocide is pardoned simply by a paranoid notion that every single member of a national group can be a potential threat? In this instance, you don't seem to be denying a genocide took place, you seem to be trying to justify it.

Seeing as death was the fate of the vast majority who were sent to these "prisoner camps for non-combatants", the creation of them in the first place, their evident and obvious result, and the continued use of them, shows the true intention of the creator.

In one comment you're implying that Germany had justification to act on the notion that everyone is a potential threat. But here you imply that many of the deaths occured in camps for non-combatants, and that their deaths were somehow accidental/incidental, without even questioning why non-combatants would be systematically forced into such a dire situation in the first place.

You are blaming the deaths of these people on the symptoms (starvation and disease) rather than the cause (the fact they were forced into such a circumstance by German authority)