For those who don’t know, Siwa is a Berber city in the Sahara Desert. It’s isolated, over 350 km from any other civilazations/cities. The Berbers have lived there for over a thousand years. I’m mixed Berber and much of my family live there.

During WWII, Afrika Korps took over Siwa 3 times. They ***** our women, ate our food and destroy our sacred pool by bathing in it. My grandfather was German (not by my grandmother’s choice). But it seems that no one knows that. While I was working Germany as a language teacher, none of my students knew about Siwa so I imagine they don’t put it in history books. The Germans occupied Siwa three different times and maybe 1% of the world knows that. Why?
Me, I know we are Amazigh. But most people know as Berbers. Probably not even a fourth of the world knows that the word Amazigh means. I don’t care for the word Berber either. I don’t live in Germany and I don’t **** Germans. It was just a job. I just asked why they would leave that out of their history books. Not everyone in Siwa is Muslim. I’m not and neither is my family. Also Algeria isn’t Siwa.