Germany has agreed to speed up the return of human remains and artwork from former African colonies where the country carried out brutal massacres and pillaged indigenous heritage.
The German culture and foreign ministry as well as regional and local cultural authorities signed a pledge late Wednesday committing museums and scientific institutions to completing an inventory on their “ethnology, natural history, art and cultural history holdings” from the colonial era.
“The priority in this work are the human remains dating from the colonial period” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the signatories said. Germany is unique among the powers in having large holdings of African human remains at museums, universities and in private collections that were used in pseudo-scientific studies.Germany has on several occasions repatriated human remains to Namibia, where it slaughtered tens of thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people between 1904 and 1908.
But it has repeatedly refused to pay direct reparations, citing millions of euros in development aid given to the Namibian government.
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