Modernization Theory is Hokum.

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Also regarding how the Germans might have viewed their colonial subjects. it might be helpful to review the Herero Rebellions and the Maji-Maji Rebellions.
It might also be helpful to re-look Eugene Fishers experiments during this time. ))

Thanks for the information. After a little more research it was interesting to see how the attitudes and activities during that period well before WWI were recreated in the Nazi ideology, including conducting medical experiments on a population deemed eugenically inferior. Another country-specific response to how to deal with unruly indigenous peoples.