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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BERLIN, Sept 2 (Reuters) - A German minister has described the slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople in Namibia more than a ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

‘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 ...

A distinguished group of academics, artists, and museum professionals have published a passionate open letter demanding that German museums open up their inventories so that research into colonial-era ...