Germany’s colonial empire was built on exploitation and violence. In Germany, learning about colonial history is not mandatory in history classes, and many students are not taught about the impact of colonialism. So, how can young people in former colonialist countries help address historical injustices today?
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00:00I want to know how do you feel being in a country which used to colonize different
00:04colonies in Africa, how does that feel?
00:09Like I feel kind of ashamed to live in this country and then to see that it's still going on.
00:15I think that we still need to reflect on how much power we still have like politically
00:20and culturally over the colonized places.
00:25How colonized countries were treated really shocked me that humans were capable of doing stuff like that.
00:31I never really thought of it as very violent.
00:35I knew that they kind of colonized countries and they took it for their own,
00:40but I didn't really think of what they had to do to get the country.