Why Germany Forgot Its Colonial Past

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Get Nebula for 40% off an annual subscription using my link: https://go.nebula.tv/thepresentpast Watch my next video about how Germany is still divided https://nebula.tv/videos/thepresentpast-why-germany-is-still-divided Or join my Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ThePresentPast Germany doesn't really talk about their colonial past. Why is that? Sources: Pape, Elise. “Postcolonial Debates in Germany – An Overview.” African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie 21, no. 2 (2017): 2–14. http://www.jstor.org/stable/90018694. Melber, Henning. “How to Come to Terms with the Past: Re-Visiting the German Colonial Genocide in Namibia.” Africa Spectrum 40, no. 1 (2005): 139–48. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40175059. Shigwedha, Vilho Amukwaya. “The Return of Herero and Nama Bones from Germany: The Victims’ Struggle for Recognition and Recurring Genocide Memories in Namibia.” In Human Remains in Society: Curation and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Genocide and Mass-Violence, edited by Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Élisabeth Anstett, 197–219. Manchester University Press, 2016. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt21h4xwg.14. Dijk, Kees van. “Germany Enters the Colonial Race.” In Pacific Strife, 97–120. Amsterdam University Press, 2015. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15nmjw8.9. NARANCH, BRADLEY, and GEOFF ELEY, eds. German Colonialism in a Global Age. Duke University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11vc7vj. Reuss, Martin. “The Disgrace and Fall of Carl Peters: Morality, Politics, and Staatsräson in the Time of Wilhelm II.” Central European History 14, no. 2 (1981): 110–41. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4545922. Pakenham T. The Scramble for Africa : White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912. First Avon books trade printing ed. New York: Avon Books; 1992. Conrad Sebastion – German Colonialism. A short history, 2011. "German Pickelhaube (ww1)" (https://skfb.ly/otJQy) by Janovich is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Hi there, my name is Jochem Boodt. I make the show The Present Past, where I show how the present has been influenced by the past. History, but connected to the present and fun! Every episode I show how history has influenced and made a thing, an idea or event in our present time. I make different content. You can find me on: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thepresentpast Instagram https://www.instagram.com/the_presentpast/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/@ThePresent_Past Logo by: https://www.instagram.com/multicolor_junkie/ If you have an idea for an episode please fill in this form: https://www.dropbox.com/request/nMMMSpoNWUJHBIZ8hJRu