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36 DAYS AGO | Munich, Germany |
America's New Colonial Nostalgia
Event Summary
The Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin has opened an exhibition framing German colonial history as a violent, racist system. It explicitly labels the suppression of the Herero and Nama peoples as genocide and connects this history to enduring cultural phenomena, such as the German romanticization of American slavery narratives.
Academics & Exhibition Curators
"Argue the exhibition provides a necessary, critical re-examination of colonial violence and its cultural echoes in German society."
Contemporary Symbol Users
"Defend the use of historically charged American symbols, like the Confederate flag, as devoid of racist intent in a German context."