https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Germany handed back more than 20 looted artefacts to Nigeria on Tuesday, saying it was to "right a wrong" more than 100 years after British colonial troops stole them. https://www.thelocal.de/20221221/germany-hands-back-looted-artefacts-to-nigeria Wed, 21 Dec 2022 10:54:43 +0100 germany-hands-back-looted-artefacts-to-nigeria Germany for the first time on Friday recognised it had committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation, with Berlin promising financial support worth more than one billion euros to aid projects in the African nation. https://www.thelocal.de/20210528/germany-officially-recognises-it-committed-genocide-in-namibia-during-colonial-rule Fri, 28 May 2021 13:56:28 +0200 germany-officially-recognises-it-committed-genocide-in-namibia-during-colonial-rule At time when Black Lives Matter protests have spread around the world, not least to Germany, there is a growing debate about how Germany should deal with its colonial legacy. https://www.thelocal.de/20200724/colonialism-how-berlin-is-grappling-with-germanys-other-guilty-past Fri, 24 Jul 2020 18:55:47 +0200 colonialism-how-berlin-is-grappling-with-germanys-other-guilty-past A German museum was set to announce Friday that it would restitute to Namibia a key 15th-century navigation landmark erected by Portuguese explorers, as part of Berlin's efforts to face up to its colonial past. https://www.thelocal.de/20190517/germany-returns-15th-century-seafarer-cross-to-namibia Fri, 17 May 2019 10:49:42 +0200 germany-returns-15th-century-seafarer-cross-to-namibia A German museum handed over the remains of an Aboriginal ancestral king to Australia Tuesday in the first of three such ceremonies across Germany this month in what Canberra called a record return. https://www.thelocal.de/20190409/germany-faces-colonial-past-through-largest-return-of-aborigine-remains Tue, 09 Apr 2019 13:03:59 +0200 germany-faces-colonial-past-through-largest-return-of-aborigine-remains The return of art and treasures taken from African countries during their colonisation by European powers is a recurring and controversial debate, including in Germany. Should countries give the art back? https://www.thelocal.de/20181122/art-repatriation-colonial-ghosts-haunt-europes-museums-including-germany Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:14:17 +0100 art-repatriation-colonial-ghosts-haunt-europes-museums-including-germany A US judge on Tuesday heard arguments from lawyers representing the German government and indigenous groups from Namibia but deferred a decision on whether to hear a lawsuit demanding reparations for colonial genocide. https://www.thelocal.de/20180801/us-judge-defers-ruling-on-whether-to-hear-namibia-genocide-case Wed, 01 Aug 2018 11:40:23 +0200 us-judge-defers-ruling-on-whether-to-hear-namibia-genocide-case Berlin is poised to strip the names of streets linked to atrocities committed during its occupation of Namibia and dedicate them to liberation fighters, part of a late reckoning with Germany's brutal colonial history. https://www.thelocal.de/20180412/berlin-to-change-street-names-which-honour-brutal-colonial-past Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:57:09 +0200 berlin-to-change-street-names-which-honour-brutal-colonial-past The German government said Friday it had asked a US court to throw out a lawsuit brought by indigenous groups from Namibia seeking reparations for the genocide of their peoples under German colonial rule. https://www.thelocal.de/20180126/germany-asks-us-court-to-drop-namibian-genocide-suit Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:21:47 +0100 germany-asks-us-court-to-drop-namibian-genocide-suit Germany launched a two-year study on Thursday to determine the origins of more than 1,000 human skulls, mostly from Rwanda, brought to Europe during the colonial era for racial "scientific" research. https://www.thelocal.de/20171005/researchers-try-to-work-out-origins-of-1000-human-skulls-from-colonial-rwanda Thu, 05 Oct 2017 20:03:46 +0200 researchers-try-to-work-out-origins-of-1000-human-skulls-from-colonial-rwanda On a thin strip of land at the bay of Lüderitz in southern Namibia are dozens of gravestones bearing the names of each German soldier killed during a largely forgotten colonial war. https://www.thelocal.de/20170721/nambian-tribe-compensation-genocide-herero Fri, 21 Jul 2017 11:34:09 +0200 nambian-tribe-compensation-genocide-herero Germany has proposed a German-Namibian future foundation and structural fund as part of its atonement for the injustices of the German colonization of southwest Africa. https://www.thelocal.de/20170323/germany-announces-atonement-for-genocide-and-colonisation-in-namibia Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:00:33 +0100 germany-announces-atonement-for-genocide-and-colonisation-in-namibia A carnival association has dropped any characters who "black up" from their parade amid accusations of racism. Worried the troop might be attacked, police will escort them during the parade. https://www.thelocal.de/20170224/carnival-troop-to-have-police-escort-after-racism-accusations Fri, 24 Feb 2017 18:16:33 +0100 carnival-troop-to-have-police-escort-after-racism-accusations More than 1,000 skulls and bones belonging to east Africans and brought to Germany for racial "scientific" research during the colonial era are still in storage in Berlin, a media report said Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20161122/1000-east-african-skulls-bones-still-held-in-berlin-report Tue, 22 Nov 2016 16:50:53 +0100 1000-east-african-skulls-bones-still-held-in-berlin-report Germany plans to formally apologise to Windhoek for the genocide of indigenous Namibians a century ago, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said Wednesday, but added the move would not carry any obligation of reparations. https://www.thelocal.de/20160713/germany-to-apologize-for-namibian-genocide Wed, 13 Jul 2016 16:45:56 +0200 germany-to-apologize-for-namibian-genocide The speaker of the German parliament on Wednesday said the slaughter of indigenous Namibians a century ago constituted a "genocide" that stemmed from a "race war". https://www.thelocal.de/20150708/a-century-on-germany-speaks-of-genocide-in-namibia Wed, 08 Jul 2015 19:31:45 +0200 a-century-on-germany-speaks-of-genocide-in-namibia This weekend a colonial German church celebrates its 100th anniversary in Namibia. The Lutheran church was finished in 1910 after a tumultuous period of construction that mirrored the upheaval of Imperial Germany's African conquest. https://www.thelocal.de/20101015/30509 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:38:00 +0200 30509