German colonialism only lasted about 30 years, at the end of the First World War Germany lost all of its colonies.
Of course, this is not the only reason why the colonialist phase is hardly present in the minds of most Germans today.
It was also “overlooked” because it happened far away.
And also because his victims were black.
The thoughtlessness with which those responsible at the Berlin Humboldt Forum initially dealt with the ethnological collections from Africa, Asia and the Americas clearly demonstrated that colonialism is still a blind spot on the great map of German remembrance.
There is a lot, a lot to catch up on.
However, some historians and followers of postcolonial studies want more.
They draw a
direct
line from the mass murder of the Herero to the Holocaust.