Katharina von Hammerstein, a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, delivered a talk titled the “Voices of Genocide: From German Colonialism in Africa to the ...

The German government intends to face its often violent colonial-era history while rejecting demands for compensation from former colonies, according to media reports. Following an inquiry by the ...

Germany's head of state asked for "forgiveness" on Wednesday for the abuses committed by his country's colonial forces in Tanzania, during a visit to Songea, the site of a massacre of indigenous ...

Introduction: Picturing race : visuality and German colonialism / Volker Langbehn -- German colonialism, 1884-1919 -- Advertising and the optics of colonial power at the Fin de Siècle / David Ciarlo - ...

Bronze head from the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin (photo by Thomas Hartmann, JGU Mainz; via Collections from Colonial Contexts) Newly launched by the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German ...

NOTHING affected the German national esteem so deeply as the loss of the German colonies, based as this loss was upon charges of brutality and maladministration on the part of those who were ...

‘THE history of our Colonies in the world war has shown that the German Colonial Empire was no proper “empire” at all, but just a number of possessions without geographical and political connection or ...

“The Man With the Crooked Arm,” a Western drama series created by Perivi Katjavivi that was presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market, is the latest attempt by the Namibian filmmaker to wrestle ...

Anyone planning to travel to the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Berlin office by metro in the coming months might need to double-check where to get out. A station that is 10 minutes walk away ...

A new front in German researchers’ inquiries into colonial-era objects opened today, as the German Lost Art Foundation announced that it will grant an additional €1.1 million to museums for provenance ...