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  • Berlin to change street names which honor brutal colonial past

    04/12/2018 5:42:01 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 7 replies
    TheLocal.de ^ | 12 April 2018 14:57 CEST+02:00 | AFP
    Berlin is poised to strip the names of streets linked to atrocities committed during its occupation of Namibia and dedicate them to liberation fighters, part of a late reckoning with Germany’s brutal colonial history. After more than a decade of debate, the three main parties in the Berlin Mitte district assembly voted late Wednesday to recommend new names for streets in the so-called African Quarter in the northwest of the German capital, spokeswoman Melita Ersek said. […] The motion to drop the names associated with bloody suppression of Namibia during Germany’s 1884-1919 occupation of what was then called German South...