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 ...

The DW documentary "Reclaiming History — Colonialism and the Genocide in Rwanda" traces the arc from German colonial rule to the genocide in Rwanda. "If we speak the same language, share the same ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier apologized Wednesday for colonial-era atrocities committed by German forces in Tanzania during a visit to the East African country. “As German President, I ...

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 ...

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, ...