IndiaNewsWatchJan 13, 2024

Germany Needs to Own Up to the Horrors of Its Colonial Past in Africa

Germany’s reckoning with the Holocaust is widely taken as a model of historical accountability — yet it has proven far less willing to confront its colonial past in Africa. Maresi Starzmann writes.

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https://jacobin.com/2020/07/german-colonialism-herero-nama-genocide-court-case

Germany Needs to Own Up to the Horrors of Its Colonial Past in Africa

Germany’s reckoning with the Holocaust is widely taken as a model of historical accountability — yet it has proven far less willing to confront its colonial past in Africa.