Wiedergutmachung™: Germany's Politics of Amnesia
Germany enshrines Wiedergutmachung as proof of moral reckoning after the Holocaust, yet denies it for its colonial crimes. What this hypocrisy reveals about a politics of memory built on evasion.
Just a few days ago, the federal government made one thing unmistakably clear: there will be no financial reparations (Wiedergutmachung) for Germany’s colonial crimes. This was spelled out in its response to a formal parliamentary inquiry by the Greens in the Bundestag. The refusal applies above all to the genoci…
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