Decolonizing Berlin

Late last month, the UN passed a resolution urging reparations for slavery's historical wrongs." This is the latest - and most dramatic - moment in an ongoing and global process of historical reckoning, which requires former colonizing countries to come to terms with the darker sides of their past. Six years ago, for example, Berlin became one of a handful of European cities reassessing its relationship to European colonialism. The local administration funded efforts to decolonize" the city landscape in partnership with Afro-German organizations. From Deutsche Welle, DW's, Inside Europe, Annelise Finney brings us this story.