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11. Okt. 2016 · The exhibition does not end in 1919, when the German Empire was stripped of all its colonies in the Treaty of Versailles. No, because we also look into the ways in which Germany has handled its colonial past. For a very long time, memories of the colonies in the Federal Republic of Germany were marked largely by nostalgia; public remembrance of ...
Contents 1Origins 1.1German Confederation and the Zollverein 1.2First state-sponsored colonial venture (1857–1862) 1.3Bismarck's rejection of colonization (1862–1871) 1.4Debate and tentative steps under the new German Empire (1871–1878) 2Establishment of the empire (1884–1890) 2.1Bismarck moves towards a colonial polic...
5. Juni 2014 · The German colonial empire lasted a mere thirty years, and is thus one of the most short-lived of all modern ‘colonialisms’. Consequently, it has not occupied centre-stage in most accounts and overviews of German history. The colonial experience was deemed marginal and insignificant, compared both to the long histories of the British and French empires, and also to the towering impact, on ...
17. Okt. 2016 · Recognizing colonial crimes. When the Herero and Nama people rebelled against German colonial rule in 1904, a campaign of racial extermination was launched. By 1908, up to 80 percent of the Herero ...
Germany - Unification, Imperialism, WWI: The German Empire was founded on January 18, 1871, in the aftermath of three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia. Within a seven-year period Denmark, the Habsburg monarchy, and France were vanquished in short, decisive conflicts. The empire was forged not as the result of the outpouring of nationalist feeling from the masses but through ...
10. Apr. 2024 · The French colonial empire comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the "First French colonial empire", that existed until 1814, by which time most of it had been lost or sold, and the "Second French colonial empire", which began with the conquest of Algiers in 1830.
25. Okt. 2012 · The German colonial empire ended after its defeat in the war and the Treaty of Versailles on 10 January 1920. Following the official end of German colonialism, a revanchist movement in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany began to try and claim the former territories, and colonial literature, films, and science blossomed. Only when the Nazis’ Russian campaign of World War II began taking its ...
