#GermanColonialism
New on the #GHIL #blog:

Former #scholarship holder Ana Carolina Schveitzer (
@humboldtuni.bsky.social) writes about "Visualizing Labour in German East Africa: Photographic Images and their Circulation".

Read her blog post here: ghil.hypotheses.org/2332

#germancolonialism
Visualizing Labour in German East Africa: Photographic Images and their Circulation
Thirty years ago, in 1993, Cambridge University Library acquired a substantial quantity of materials from the Commonwealth and Britain’s former colonial territories. This repository originally came fr...
ghil.hypotheses.org
May 28, 2024 at 9:43 AM
fellow #skystorians, this week, 2 important projects on German colonialism & memory culture had to close down and Habbo Knoch, a highly regarded scholar of the impact & legacies of images of the Shoa passed away - what a blow to #decolonial #germancolonialism #multidirectionalmeories
December 18, 2024 at 9:40 AM
The Long Shadow of #GermanColonialism
Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism by #HenningMelber

An overview of German colonial rule and analyses how its legacy has affected and been debated in German society, politics and the media.
The Long Shadow of German Colonialism | Hurst Publishers
A no-holds-barred account of how German society struggles with its colonial legacy.
www.hurstpublishers.com
December 19, 2024 at 8:58 PM
See our latest post on the Herero Rebellion against the Germans in modern day Namibia. This rebellion led to the first known genocide. #HereroRebellion #GermanColonialism

zurl.co/APN48
Herero Rebellion against German Colonialism, 1904
On 12 January 1904, a rebellion began by the Herero people in Namibia against oppression by German occupiers of their country. The rebellion had begun in January 1904 in response to rising tensions within the German colo...
zurl.co
January 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Troppenkoller was a colonial-era German medical term describing mental and physical breakdown among European soldiers in tropical environments.

#ColonialMedicine
#MilitaryHistory
#TropicalMedicine
#HistoryOfPsychiatry
#GermanColonialism
January 13, 2026 at 6:52 AM