A general view of the statue of German colonial leader Curt von Francois before being removed in Windhoek, Nov. 23, 2022. Von Francois was governor of the area, then known as German South West ...

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday called for Germany to face up to its "dark" colonial past in Tanzania and said his country was open to returning artefacts looted during the era.

A large crane lifted a colonial-era statue of German official Curt von Francois in Namibian capital Windhoek on Wednesday, as a crowd that gathered nearby clapped and hooted in delight. The 2.4 ...

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.

Visitors crowd around the works of Cheryl McIntosh in Ernst Moritz Arndt House, ... It's estimated that up to 100,000 Herero and Nama people died as a result of German colonial crimes.

Many of Brink’s novels, located in mainly historical colonial settings of South Africa, were published in Germany by the large publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch.

Skulls of people from the Ovaherero and Nama tribes, which were taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for racial experiments, are returned to Namibian tribal leaders during a ...

The Holocaust has overshadowed earlier German crimes against humanity of the colonial era. After the second world war (1939-1945), German colonialism became a footnote in history. Repression ...

This commemoration honors the victims of the Herero and Nama genocide, perpetrated by German colonial forces between 1904 and 1908. During this period, tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people ...

Qingdao, China once played home to a German trading colony. Like most colonial powers, the Germans shrugged off what the local culture had to offer by ways of food, etiquette and architecture.

Germany was the colonial ruler of Namibia from 1884 until 1915, when it gave up the territory to South Africa. Namibia finally gained independence from South Africa in 1990.