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Conflict Insight ·  Europe

Acknowledging Guilt: How does Germany deal with the Holocaust and the Genocide of the Herero and Nama?

How to cite this journal: Author, Date of the post, WMO Conflict Insight, Title of the post, ISSN: 2628 6998, https://worldmediation.org/journal/ ABSTRACT Germany is often praised for its handling of the Holocaust and for its acknowledgment of collective guilt towards that atrocity. At the same time, the absence of a comparable reckoning with colonial atrocities is largely ignored. Even though Germany acknowledged guilt regarding the genocide of the Herero and Nama in 2021, the extent of that acknowledgment differs. This paper therefore offers a comparative analysis explaining why Germany acknowledges

guilt to a different extent in relation to the Holocaust and to the genocide of the Herero and…

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