Few people realize, though, that before the world wars Germany had 11 colonies in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific. German ...

Drawing on recent studies of the links between empire, colonialism, and genocide, Nazi Empire, 1871-1945 examines German history from 1871 to 1945 as an expression of the aspiration to imperialist ...

Colonial authorities sent Dibobe back to Cameroon in 1907 to consult on the construction of a railway line. German infrastructure in Cameroon still stands to this day, and some historians talk of ...

The campaign to suppress opposition to Israel's war of extermination embraces all of Germany’s political parties.

In awarding the 2024 German Book Prize to Hefter, the jury said: "The novel combines grueling everyday life with mythological figures and cosmic dimensions in a fascinating way, navigating between ...

The statue of a controversial German colonial officer in Namibia's capital, Windhoek, has been taken down following pressure from activists. Curt von François's statue was erected in 1965 to ...

This book examines German attempts to acquire colonial territories in East Asia and the Pacific, and discusses the huge impact this had on local and other international powers. It covers the German ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the German empire took thousands of skulls from its colonies for research into racial classification. Such research has since been discredited, the BBC ...

The Maji Maji rebellion was triggered by a German policy designed to force the indigenous population to grow cotton for export The German president has expressed "shame" for the colonial ...

"We have discussed this in detail and we are ready to open negotiations to see how we are going to agree on the German colonial legacy," Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan said at a news ...