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Germany Returns 20 Skulls to Africa.
Germany Returns 20 Skulls to Africa.
- Source :
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New York Times . 10/1/2011, Vol. 161 Issue 55545, p1. 0p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Namibian government representatives and leaders of the Herero and Nama tribes attended a ceremony at Charite Hospital in Berlin on Friday to take possession of 20 skulls brought to Germany for racial research a century ago. Although it is not clear how the 9 Hereros and 11 Namas died between 1904 and 1908, the four females and 16 males, including a boy of about three, were possibly victims of German colonial forces in their colony South West Africa. Imperial German troops and settlers massacred tens of thousands of tribe members when they revolted in 1904, after being expelled from their land, or recruited them into forced labor. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03624331
- Volume :
- 161
- Issue :
- 55545
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New York Times
- Publication Type :
- News
- Accession number :
- 66175557