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Bremerhaven (dpa / lni) - The German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven is showing photographs of German marines from the colonial era around 1900 as an open-air exhibition. The 50 photographs will be presented to the public for the first time by the end of October, as curator Gisela Parak said on Thursday.
The show with the title «See the other?
The colonialist view »was created in collaboration with students from the University of Bremen.
The photographs are largely taken from travel albums of marines who traveled to northeast China, the Pacific or Africa during the colonial wars of the German Empire.
You should enforce the laws of the German colonial power there.
The recordings made it clear how deeply the sailors had internalized the ideology that they were superior to the indigenous population, said Parak.
A group picture shows sailors in Samoa, which was a German colony until 1914.
The men pose with half-naked local women.
"The recording demonstrated a very aggressive behavior that was normal for the time," said Parak.
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For the first time, the museum shows the connection between war and merchant shipping and German colonial history, said director Sunhild Kleingärtner.
The show is the first step to deal further with the topic and the colonial-historical collection of the house.
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Information about the open-air exhibition