A desert in southern Africa is probably the last place you would expect to find a little slice of German life. But knee-deep in the shifting sands of the Namib Desert in Namibia, the abandoned village ...

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 ...

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 - ...

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 ...

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 ...

A top German official gave a strong speech on the need for Germany to reckon with its abusive colonial past in Cameroon, a German colony between 1884 and 1919, and other former German colonies. Katja ...

‘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 five-year program examines how the city benefited from Germany's expansions abroad. A wooden figure from the colonial period during a press preview of the exhibition "German Colonialism: Fragments ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Germany's head of state asked for "forgiveness" on Wednesday for the abuses committed by his country's colonial forces in Tanzania ...

Without intervention, the important surviving physical evidence and the opportunity for commemoration will be lost.