#104 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/104/ Practical remedies to disputes over historical markers in public spaces Tue, 16 May 2023 15:25:25 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://contestedhistories.org/wp-content/uploads/cropped-CH_Symbol_Light_Bkg@10x-32x32.png #104 Archives - Contested Histories https://contestedhistories.org/tag/104/ 32 32 The Marine Memorial in Swakopmund https://contestedhistories.org/resources/case-studies/the-marine-memorial-in-swakopmund?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-marine-memorial-in-swakopmund Mon, 17 Jul 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://contestedhistories.org/resources// The Marine Denkmal (Marine Memorial) in Swakopmund, Namibia, commemorates the German imperial soldiers who fought against Indigenous Namibians in the Herero Wars (1904-1908). Amid fraught Namibian-Germany relations and contested national memory politics, this monument has become a reminder of unresolved colonial legacies and traumas. Indigenous Namibian groups have pursued legal measures to secure reparations from […]

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]]> The Marine Denkmal (Marine Memorial) in Swakopmund, Namibia, commemorates the German imperial soldiers who fought against Indigenous Namibians in the Herero Wars (1904-1908). Amid fraught Namibian-Germany relations and contested national memory politics, this monument has become a reminder of unresolved colonial legacies and traumas. Indigenous Namibian groups have pursued legal measures to secure reparations from the German government for the Herero and Nama genocide of 1904-1907. In 2021, Germany and Namibia reached an agreement in which the former country would pay the latter $1.3 billion over the next 30 years, but this deal remains controversial. This case study explores how monuments that celebrate colonial times from the past can provoke contemporary disputes.

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