"Germany carried out an actual genocide in its African colonies."
So did 'Gallant little Belguim - to the tune of 10 million deaths and innumerable thousands of rubber workers having their hands removed for failing to meet their quota.
Britain continued to carry out atrocities in its colonies, in India and Ireland, to name just two, in order to hold onto them as did all other colonial powers
World War One was a fight for colonial power
"They fought to save Europe and their homeland from a militaristic tyranny."
Meaningless Imperialistic cliché
You choose not to comment that the powers that be in Britain commemorated the anniversary by holding an arms fair to sell weapons to some of the words worst despot - "land of hope and glory, mother of the free" eh, what??
Jim Carroll