Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large ...

Awareness of the crimes committed during this period has only recently entered the public consciousness, in part due to the debate about the mass murder of the Nama and Herero tribes by German ...

Lothar von Trotha, who played a key role in suppressing resistance and violent uprisings in the German colonies, for example, is buried in Bonn. As commander of the colonial troops in German ...

Iltisstraße, Berlin-Dahlem: In German, the word “Iltis” means “polecat”, evoking that little native carnivore from the marten family after which the road must surely have been named. But actually it ...

When war broke out these colonial outposts would make important ... The German force was small with only 300 German and 1,200 native troops. They didn’t have the support of the local population ...

Conquered lands transformed into "legitimate" titles and were handed over or sold cheaply to settlers and colonial soldiers. More than 100 years later, much of that land is still in German ...