Researchers have identified living relatives in Tanzania of people whose skulls were pillaged and taken to Germany during the colonial era, Berlin's museum authority said on Tuesday, a discovery hailed as a 'small miracle'.
Researchers have identified living relatives in Tanzania of people whose skulls were pillaged and taken to Germany during the colonial era, Berlin's museum authority said on Tuesday, a discovery hailed as a"small miracle".
"The relatives and the government of Tanzania will now be informed as soon as possible," the statement said. Interest in the skulls waned after World War I and they were in very poor condition when the museum acquired them in 2011, the SPK said. In German South West Africa, now Namibia, Germany was responsible for mass killings of indigenous Herero and Nama people that many historians refer to as the first genocide of the 20th century.
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