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Germany aware of illusions
"We in Germany have sold ourselves the illusion that we came out of the colonial times with just a few scrapes or that German colonialism was too short to create lasting damage," declared Minister of Foreign Affairs Michelle Müntefering during a parliamentary session. Germany became a colonial power relatively late, only occupying African soil in the 1880s. It then lost these territories during the First World War.
German colonial forces are accused of perpetrating genocide against Herero and Nama people
It took over 100 years for a German government to acknowledge its colonial actions in Africa officially. In 2018, a coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD parties agreed to assess the country's colonial past.
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