An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link 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 ...

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 ...

In the early 20th century, artists like Emil Nolde and Max Pechstein searched for "primitive authenticity" in the German colonies. Here's what they found. When the painter Max Pechstein boarded the ...

Germany's Federal Archives own an important collection of documents from the colonial era. To untrained eyes, they are indecipherable. Now, artificial intelligence can help researchers. Anyone aiming ...

Dr. Hjelmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank, a leading German financial authority, has a plan for the return to Germany of the ex-German colonies.* He advocates an “international chartered ...

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 ...

Hamburg-based merchant Adolph Woermann's shipping firm went from making immense profits by trading alcohol in West Africa to transporting the German soldiers that subjugated the Herero and Nama in ...

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 ...

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BERLIN — Germany on Friday apologized for its role in slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople in Namibia more than a century ago and officially described the massacre as genocide for the first time, ...