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 ...

Huddersfield (UK), May 29 (The Conversation) The Namibian genocide was one of the first genocides of the 20th century. Between 1904 and 1908, tens of thousands of Ovaherero and Nama people were killed ...

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 ...

More than 100 years after the crimes committed by the German colonial power in what is now Namibia, Germany has formally recognized the atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups ...

‘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 ...

Germany’s colonial empire, which lasted from 1884 to 1919 shaped global inequalities. German colonies saw forced labor, rebellions, and genocide. In this video series, high school students from ...

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 ...