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Germany's colonial era: Battling oblivion with art

Street names, monuments and graves of colonial rulers: the colonial era left its mark on Germany. In the German city of Bonn, artist Cheryl McIntosh explores colonial history and its impact on the ...
Time

How Activists Are Radically Interrogating Berlin’s Colonial Past—and Reshaping Its Future

Nestled alongside the River Spree south of Berlin’s city center, Treptower Park is home to green lawns, riverboat rides and runners pounding their way along the waterside path. Summer days usually see ...
Artnet

German Institutions Are Spending More Than $3 Million on Programming That Addresses Berlin’s Sordid (and Long Glossed-Over) Colonial Past

The five-year program examines how the city benefited from Germany's expansions abroad. A wooden figure from the colonial period during a press preview of the exhibition "German Colonialism: Fragments ...
Foreign Affairs

Germany’s Colonial Claims: a South African View

GERMANY'S colonial aspirations are confined largely to Africa: that is the classic field for colonial exploitation and there lie the most important of the former German colonies. The problems created ...
Hindustan Times

Germany's colonial era: Battling oblivion with art

The colonial era has left its mark on Germany. Cheryl McIntosh explores colonial history and its impact on the present. Street names, monuments and graves of colonial rulers: The colonial era has left ...