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German invaders pillaged thousands of skulls from East African colonies and brought them back. Using DNA analysis, a museum has managed to find relat of three of the skulls. This finding is a ...
In November 1884, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck took ... The colonising nations drew up a ragged patchwork of new African colonies, superimposed on existing “native” nations.
Josephine Apraku Germany lost control of its African colonies in the early days of WWI. That means that for much of the 20th century there was relatively little German contact with people from ...
Few people realize, though, that before the world wars Germany had 11 colonies in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. German influence is still evident in some of them, in some surprising ways.
A new book called The Long Shadow of German ... the African fatalities amounted to an estimated 75,000. During a colonial rule of 30 years (1884-1914), Germans in the colonies numbered fewer ...
Germany offers to return 1,000 human skulls to former east African colonies Berlin's museum authority announced this week that it was ready to return hundreds of human skulls from the former ...
A growing number of colonies set up by other European nations made Woermann fear that he and other German businesses would lose access to African markets. Chancellor Otto von Bismack was reluctant ...
A colonial gaze — like the romantic conceptions of European life in African colonies popularised by ... evoked the particular horrors of war in German Southwest Africa, including the gendered ...
I think it is going to be a Germany that is open to doing business and collaborating with African countries," Ojewale said.
Kamina wireless station was completed in July 1914 and was a pivotal point for German naval communications ... enough to link all of Germany’s African colonies with Berlin.
“The Vichy regime in France, for instance, enacted antisemitic laws that were also imposed on its North African colonies ... comprised of dozens of German and Italian military officers ...
This community still exists in Namibia today, and was descended from Europeans and local African people in the ... people were banned throughout the German colonies. Did intellectual acceptance ...