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Berlin (dpa) - Berlin wants to encourage its cultural institutions to constantly deal with Germany's colonial past.
"The confrontation with colonialism should become an everyday project of the respective institution," said State Secretary for Culture Torsten Wöhlert on Monday in the culture committee of the House of Representatives.
In the post-colonial dispute, there should be no focus on ethnological museums.
Wöhlert announced that the holdings of the Brücke Museum should first be examined.
The collection includes works by famous expressionists such as Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Mueller, Max Pechstein and Emil Nolde.
Merel Fuchs from the coordination office for decolonization created in 2020 announced a concept for a comprehensive review by the end of the year.
Decolonization is a continuous task for society as a whole.
"We are at the beginning of a process."
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Fuchs urged taking responsibility from the colonial past.
The federal government has recognized the murder of Herero and Nama as genocide, but has so far refused any legal consequences.
The German Reich ruled as a colonial power from 1884 to 1915 in what is now Namibia.
There, uprisings by ethnic groups under German orders were brutally suppressed.
According to historians, around 65,000 of the 80,000 Herero and at least 10,000 of the 20,000 Nama were killed.
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