Faces of colonialism: the story of an imperialist propaganda | DW Documentary
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2023
- For a long time, photographer Robert Lohmeyer shaped the European view of Africa. During his travels, from 1907 to 1909, he photographed the German colonies -- in color, for the first time. In doing so, he laid the photographic foundations of racism.
The young photographer‘s trip to the German colonies of Togo, Cameroon, German Southwest Africa (now Namibia) and German East Africa (now Tanzania) was taken at the height of German imperialism. In his photographs of his travels, Robert Lohmeyer generated enthusiasm for these distant lands that Germany considered its possessions.
Making use of the most up-to-date photographic equipment at the time, Lohmeyer’s project was a meticulously planned PR campaign. Its goal? A celebration of colonialism and empire.
Lohmeyer’s resulting photography books were seen by huge numbers of people. Even today, the pictures are still in circulation. Lohmeyer's photos convey the image of a "peaceful savage" in a paradisiacal landscape. A colonial idyll. Because the images are in color, they evoke a feeling of authenticity and truthfulness. War, disease, hunger and death do not appear in Lohmeyer's pictures.
Based on unpublished written sources and photographs, the documentary follows Lohmeyer's journey. It tells the story of a chapter in the history of photography. But it also tells the story of a propaganda coup. Finally, the film explores Lohmeyer’s contribution to a new kind of racism -- in color - the effects of which can still be felt today.
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How the photographies were used was problematic but the photographies themselves are beautiful and so are the people in them.
There's nothing beautiful about what Asians and Europeans did to Africans.
How can you find beauty in these horrible photos? Your whiteness makes you ignorant.
I would say they are beautiful if your idiot ancestors had asked for permission but they didn't ask for permission they were murderers and devils if there is a heaven these white people will not see it
Well said
Germany is the most racist country on Planet earth.
💔💔💔 This documentary proves that it's far much better to honestly face our historic prejudices than side-step them or hide from them. The only way to heal past cruelty is to own up to such injustices and racists agendas perpetrated in history.
The people who support prejudice know this, and actively work to take access to education about these topics away from the masses. To create the narratives that they want people to believe. It’s so important to value truth, to stay informed, and to not stay desensitized or complacent.
That's not happening anytime soon. In Australia we're voting on whether to give Indigenous people "a voice" Most Australians are against it. They want to keep control of what they stole.
@@somerandomfella Its a horrible injustice of the 21 Century. Here in the states, Black were kept down for so long after emancipation. It takes away personal power and the right to be an equal human. It keeps people in addiction and poverty.
@@somerandomfella I don't know what to say, that is heartbreaking.
In other word, "Know your history, or be doomed to repeat it"
As an African, I have been visiting other African countries very often as I feel accepted. I recently visited Namibia based on very good advertisement by a blogger. Yes Namibia is beautiful, the nature, the vastness, the food, the best steak ever. However I was saddened by what I saw. Vast tracts of land owned by Boers and Germans alike with a constitution that says that one cannot reclaim his ancestral land. If this is not colonialism what is?????
And only white people will be able to use and own cars, machines, computers, telephones, actually everything, because it belongs to their ancestors.
You will find that is de-facto the case all over Eastern, Central and Southern Africa. These are the ancestral lands of Pygmies and Bush People - they were displaced over the last thousand or so years by Bantu. I don't see any other country in these regions of Africa volunteering to give them back their lands!
Actually, in contrast to what you say it was in the presence of Boers (and other Europeans) that the Bush People of Southern Africa found a sanctuary of sorts. There are precious few Bush People tribes left in Eastern Africa and Southern Africa remains their best, last refuge.
@@frankyyaggabot6222 Get out of here with that Colonial babble. Europeans brought zero improvements to their colonial subjects
Well look ... you speak English and are using the Internet so evidently you are wrong. Do you wash your hands before eating, have inoculations for small pox, have you studied mathematics, physics, chemistry, technology? Do you ride in a car or use currency other than cowry shells? Do you have electricity at night and turn a tap and water comes out?
But here's the real kicker - do you expect to live past the age of 25? Because in 1880 that was the average life expectancy of an African in East Africa - today it is 65! That's 40 years of life that is a direct consequence of western development.
I don't even have to try - you can deny all you like and yet these facts do not go away.
@@EWRIGHT637
... and it's not colonial babble - it's Population Genetics (a field of Science) that studies population drifts based on DNA. @@EWRIGHT637
As an african lady, I will never let slavery and colonialism define who I am. We had a life before those tragic events.
Why do you talk about slavery as your grand parents were taken as slaves.
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Why do you say nothing about the Arabs who took you as slaves then? Why do none of your people educate themselves on the awful things the eastern colonial Arabs did to African slaves and decimated African indigenous population?????
Brits are taught colonialism in school and the horrors.
The same can’t be said for any Arab country….
@@Piqueblinders11
That sounded a little personal dude.
@@Piqueblinders11yup Arab slavery existed but Christianity was forced on Africans by colonisers
Thank you DW for enlightening us on one of the tentacles of colonialism. As a Namibian and an African, I feel like history never really remain in the past, it has a way of repeating itself if not continuing. I mean, to this day, the faces of colonialism still exists. The use photography to show Africa's inferiority just evolved and the western media are at the forefront of showing the worst possible photograghs they can find, which does not really depict the true nature of Africa and Africans.
If you are reffering to news outlets then yes,that's actually their job,focusing on drama and bad stuff and it goes everywhere not just about Africa and africans.Along the years,most of the stuff i've seen about Africa and their people were positive in general,i'm reffering to movies,documentaries,vlogs and so on. Last one was about a woman from Holland,riding her motorcycle across whole Africa.Quite nice
@@robb5828that’s a lie. I’m Kenyan and just a few years back we had to call out CNN on social media for portraying Kenya as a “hotbed of terrorism” …
Actually you will find that you cannot source the vast majority of African photographs from the past (they are censored on Google). You may want to ask yourself why photographs of Africa and Africans from a hundred years back are not available on Google? There are for example lines of slaves from the Kamba (a tribe in Kenya) being deported to Mombassa by other Kamba Chiefs for the East African Slave Trade (stopped by the British). That history has been erased to the point that the Kamba in Kenya today do not even know it existed - the erasure of History is never a good thing. Whatever the British did they chronicled it and it is available for Historians to disseminate (and they often choose the bad ... no surprise). Why would imagery evidencing an African Slave Trade engaged in by Africans selling their own tribal members be erased from the pages of Google?
The average lifespan of an African in the 1880s in East Africa was about 25 years ... they lived a very hard life which is evident in the photographs that exist from back then. Sorry they don't depict the "noble savage" that is a stereotype that ironically many of the Pan-African types seem wanting to perpetuate these days. Also woven clothing was non-existent in many parts of Africa - so if you are looking for Tweed Suits in the photos - also not available (although, numerous Zulu Chiefs would later elect to wear such dress in photographs).
I also don't subscribe to the notion that the Europeans sought to make the black man appear savage in photographs. A lot of the photos were of tribal chiefs in their regalia. It was, what it was and if modern sensibilities can't grasp it or wish to reinterpret it then, that speaks more about our own Age.
@@robb5828 from Holland! Why not an African Black woman riding her motorcycle in Her Africa.
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How come we are never talking
about Ottoman colonialization which lasted as long?
This comment is by a miserable person
Doesn’t play into the narrative
Because this is about Germany you clown.
@@Eechuta they are still colonialist imperialists though
@@MultiRingtail Very true, the Arabs wont get flak either
6:50 family of man (hierarchy)
8:02 farmers of different ethnic groups -> easier to control
12:14 3-colour camera, colonial expansion, ethnography
19:52 Togo
25:31 Herero and Nama genocide (1904->1908)
27:34 Kolmanskop (diamant mining)
29:28 Tanzania, Maasai people, askari
32:34 WWI, black infamy
34:47 Nazi vs colonialism
40:37 responsible ways of exhibiting colonial photos
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@LauraMachado-bv1dm Are you justifying colonialism?
Why isn't Dr. Kokoo Azamede referred to as such. Would it be too much for the white reporter to call a black historian "Doctor"? What has changed between then and now?
Exactly! And @DWDocumentary gave him 1 minute of airtime out of a 42-min documentary, despite the fact that he had more expertise on the subject matter than anyone else featured, and they don't see the irony
Jeez, so many ads. So excesive.
Just buy the premium subscription and don't complain
Referencing 17:52 it’s so bewildering that based on the “manifold experience “ they thought each race should keep to it’s own, all the while colonizing other people’s land.
Smh!
You should see it as a result of time, back then there was no TV or internet to spread ideas/languages and so on among your people, if you wanted a united country you had to be sure that everyone follows the same culture on his own. I mean there were still many german ethnicities which spoke different german languages even with this mindset. A rope is only strong as long as ot doesn't split up and stay as a whole, same with a country.
I would see it more as a method to survive as a German on this rough continent rather than racism.
@@randyraudi7725Why were they there to begin with? They weren't born there, they sailed there & then wanted to keep it separate in the Africans land that the germans had no authority or ties to...
Für alle, die sich mehr mit der Rolle der Fotografie in Kolonialismus beschäftigen wollen kann ich "An alle orte, die hinter uns liegen" von Sinthujan Varatharajah empfehlen!
Can the museum/publisher provide parts of its income where these photos were taken?
I love how DW Documentary is getting more interested in the Namibia - German history, next time go deeper into the lives of children of mixed race born during the German era to the local Nama and Herero women, you will be interested to know how those little babies were hidden and survived seperation from their black mothers
I mean... have the Namibians gotten any compensation? If not, then a simple apology really doesn't cut it does it?
How far back in history are we gonna go for “compensations” and who gets to decide what is worthy of “compensation”
There is no need for compensation, everything happened was meant to happen and God allowed it to happen.
And shouldnt African nations compensate Europeans for enslaving a million of them ?
Or should they not compensate for selling their own kind as slaves?
Or shouldn't they compensate the Brits or French for stopping the slavery trade?
How many French and Brits soldiers died fighting the Africans to stop selling their own kind like slaves.
Why do all people talk like other region of the world are saints and that only the west has committed atrocities?
Look at the factual history and not this woke propaganda and you can clearly see the evil committed by most of the world regions.
@@BirdsfromHuntingdon 150 years (recent history) will suffice
@@shukriiii So who decides how far back we go for compensation?
Preoccupation with history is only undignified if it is used as an instrument to dehumanize a group of people and divide society in order to create or perpetuate some kind of political hierarchy. The topic of this documentary is sensitive (painful for some people), but it was adequately handled by DW.
People occupy other's land because they conquer it
Throughout history people conquered and ruled
Persian, Indian and Mongolian empires too
Yes and, many Europeans certainly don't like to share photo's of their "glorious" time as Colonials...
I've found documents and photo's alike in my research which I am being told "we don't talk about" should I take the liberty to ask for clarification...💤
I guess it's easier to hide/forget things in official History...if for nothing else then, to look good and friendly...sounds better than to admit they were horrific....
So, you find the "preoccupation with history" as long as a judgement isn't made? Typical.
@@Jetmab04 just Belgium was cruel and Britain a bit , do turkey and Russian identify as European? because they actually were cruel .so was Persian and Mongolian
@@Jetmab04Spain and British were glorious because they spread Christianity and sports and literature and music
The industrial revolution is sthg to be proud of
Though Portugal and Belgium were cruel, though they don't receive hate because they're not known for much, same with Mongolia
Japan does receive hate though
The one thing that disgusts me the most, by far are people and their behavior.
That's because you didn't try to understand them. The human civilization is the single best thing our galaxy has to offer, IMO.
@@AlexV6 Trust me, the more I understand them, the uglier we get. Sure, there are bright sides too, but I dont see how were better than a pest or natural disaster. Our powers are only shadowed by our ignorance and egos.
@@homo-sapiens-dubiumHumans will be wiped out from the face of the earth sometime in the future,planet will restart itself at some point and give another shot to some other species ;)
Yes, especially people like you hating on all of mankind.
@@cryptospacexxxit6281 I'm not hating, I'm simply disgusted. Its not the same emotion.
Thanks you so much DW for sharing!
So informative documentary 🙏🏿
Always watching
Dear man, can you forgive the Germans, after over 100 years and after the Germans declared themselves guilty and were willing to consult with the Namibia government by agreeing to pay 1.1 billion euros to heal the old wounds, so that everything is in order again between the Namibians and the Germans, because no one can undo it.
Greeting from Canada.
Lieber Mann, können Sie den Deutschen verzeihen, nach über 100 Jahren und nachdem die Deutschen sich schuldig erklärt haben und bereit waren, mit der namibischen Regierung 1,1 Milliarden Euro zu zahlen, um die alten Wunden zu heilen, damit zwischendurch alles wieder in Ordnung ist zwische die Namibier und die Deutschen, denn niemand kann es rückgängig machen.
Grüße aus aus Kanada.
@@johanngiesbrecht6460 Only 25,000 Germans lived in their colonies at the height of their empire. Germany now has MILLIONS of African immigrants living in Germany. People living today do NOT owe Africans anything. Moral, collective guilt is unjustified. Have you never read Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl? He survived the Holocaust and he doesn't even condone moral, collective guilt.
Germans brought technology and genius to Africa. They were taking colored photographs of people still using obsidian projectiles. I mean, seriously, evolution isn't fair or pretty. No one needs to accept the unjustified resentment of contemporary Africans or their victimhood mentality. Their lack of education has nothing to do with colonialism. Their lack of education is their OWN fault.
I truly commend the team for making this documentary with such detailed depiction of the diabolical racist history. It takes a great deal of honesty and morality for the existing generation to accept and acknowledge the cruelty done by their preceding generation onto others. This also educates the former population about the reality of colonialism, that it was not just remotely trade, but lowest of human standard. I also commend the German people for embracing their past in entirety and not cherry coating the ugly. I am from India and my country was under British colonial rule and never ever have I stumbled upon a documentary made by the British depicting the unthinkable crimes they did in the name of racist supremacy, that it was the white man's burden to civilize the savages. Irony is, they turned out to be the savages.
Hmmm ... so say the revisionists of today. Fact is that you can delve into the past and find many 'educated' black Pan-Africans and 'brown' Indians echoing exactly the same sentiments as many Europeans back then. So what of them ... were they stooges or do you respect their own analysis even though it contradicts your own and that of the 'modern' diatribe?
It doesn't take any honesty and morality to demonize an entire race, while excusing or simply ignoring the evil perpetrated by others.
You pour your heart out.... and I feel your pain... and your disappointment in the very same people that so hardly try to sit upon that moral high ground of which they are not worthy of.....
I have a book on my bed it stays there and it never moves from it.....
In that book I have the name of every Tribe they drove to Extinction.....
@@shanegedula8183 ... and if by they (you mean Europeans) - try again. European colonialism (or British specifically) in Africa stopped Tribal Wars and actually preserved the integrity of Tribes and the domains they inhabited (there are numerous instances of Tribes being wiped out by the Maasai in East Africa and Zulu in South Africa and many others in the interior by Slavers when the British arrived ... and West Africa was much worse than all of these). In India much the same and more specifically the English preserved the integrity of Indian Peoples by the establishment of States in which the official languages were of the people who lived there and not for example Persian. You also have quite literally hundreds of instances of dictionaries being created and the cultural histories of peoples being recorded. To evaluate the British Colonies in terms of the equivalent period of time prior in those locales is the difference between night and day. Your grievances in the absence of putting things into any perspective are just silly and whiney!
@@frankyyaggabot6222 Obviously you need that narrative to assuage your own conscious for the inhumanity and the death and destruction the colonial forces brought upon the Natives where ever they sat foot, but I don't fall for that for I know my Story and it didn't start with the arrival of a bunch of hungry savages...
It baffles me how you make a documentary without a direct dialogue with the victims
A very important and critical point
I agree, but also wonder if any are willing to be interviewed for a documentary.
good point - it kinda sort of hints at the continuing look at them in as object mentality still existing
The victims? They are all dead. This happened 100 years ago. Or do we also need to talk to the “victims” of slavery aka their grand-grand-grand-grandparents being a serf in feudal Europe 200 years ago? Life is hard, stronger people dominate weaker people. That’s how it was and how it always will be.
@asatrv
Wow!! Germany still make payments to Israel to this day, and that is just fine but when it comes to Africa, you spew such nonsense . Anyway, the situation will never remain like this forever...one day we will all wake up to some very "interesting" news....
Was the person on the video call speaking German?
Yes, the historian on the video call from Togo was speaking German!
History no beginning and no end
Indeed. And History does not repeat itself, people do.
And war has never been a part of history.
It was a wonderful documentary and thrilled watching 👀... Documentary...it's excited me the Germany 🇩🇪 after WW2 obviously condemning theirs racism pages in modern history of Germany....while Other European countries whose they had similar racism history pages..during imperialism terms they are not admitting and not condemning themselves....always they advancing smartness evading methods and elasticity pretexts...thank you (DW) documentary channel for sharing
Correct. Britain hasn't regerts or apologize to indians yet.
Yeah, they replaced racism with mass murder instead.
France erased all her dirty past even from history book!
@@NSrini1971the king said it but like other people they don't want to give back jewel
It’s part of history. Do you see Africans admitting or condemning that they sold their own people into slavery?
We are no better than how we treat the vulnerable amongst us. It is those that fear uncertainty, that seek subordination and dominion, that have fear of our differences, the unknown, that seek to control and have power over the minds of human...
that's highly anti-semitic, shame on you
Word...
@@SamuelLevant
Israel had Jesus
X ray,printing press cars, video games,cycle from Germany
Wifi, telescope from Netherlands
Computer, vaccines, cricket, Tennis, formula 1, steam engine, motor from england
Television refrigerator from Scotland
Pasteurization , photography, penal code, statue of Liberty from France
Piano, violin , cello, espresso machine, radio, telephone from Italy
Helicopter and Rubik's cube from Hungary
Periodic table from Russia
Etc
@@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv what's your point?
@@SamuelLevant regardless of what news says
The guilt pushing can't eliminate the pride of bringing the world forward
Excellent photos ,thanks 😊
A lot of Germans were killed in WWll. If they didn't die, there would be millions of Germans living today.
I am glad that Germans are so open about their past. They believe in learning from the past. History will repeat itself if we fail to learn from the past.
The translation of the book shown is ":Dog from Africa." That was not included in this translation. Horrible!
I can attest to the body telling you to say no! When I wondered how & why things happened the way they did, I realized exactly what the problem was, and it is JUST as he says. And I ALWAYS say that when the nice person puts their foot down suddenly, after giving everything of themselves, then they become the a-hole. So true!
What are you even trying to say.
Exactly!
In research I have sadly, been directly warned against these "friendly" people many, many times...
The saying "if we don't talk about it, it probably never happened" is more than correct....because it DID happen and often, much worse than we can imagine.
@@cryptospacexxxit6281 he is saying that when you treat someone with kindness and they take advantage of that and you eventually stand up for yourself no longer wanting to be taken advantage of that person will claim you are a reasonable and villafy you
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Blanquiemiento mentality
This just pisses me off
Thank you, now a documentary on neocolonialism / present day colonialism
Thanks for watching, we are happy to hear you enjoyed the docu :)
There is racism everywhere from maternity hospitals to funeral homes, cemeteries and absolutely every place in between although not everyone is racist.
We Ethiopians are proud free people never allowed such inhumane behavior of Europeans. As a Christian nation believe all humans are equally created by God. May God bless Ethiopia.
Ethiopia only gave up slavery in 1943. One in every three Ethiopians was a slave.
@@frankyyaggabot6222 Don't mislead innocent people. If you are ignorant read history books including the holy book Bible.
Those facts are historical: Ethiopia was liberated by the British in 1942 from a brief period of colonial rule by the Italians. In the following year Haile Selassie agreed to end the institution of slavery in Ethiopia. It is estimated at the time that 1 in every 3 Ethiopians was a slave. Abyssinian slaves were very popular in particular in Arab holdings because they were ascribed higher intelligence than most Africans. @@saramekonnen5127
The Italians were quite brutal in Ethiopia.
But you allowed it to happen to the rest of your brethren.
Its really sad that our grandparents have to suffer all these from imperialism and colonialism. But if you look today, nothing much has changed. Africa is still controlled by the west. Our leaders are controlled by the west. Our minerals are taking away and the continent have the highest poverty ratio. Look how young African men and women dying in the sea just to reach the shores of Europe. I think we Africans are also sometimes responsible for other races to look low upon us. We don't like each other. We are so much into tribalism. We hate each other. Our politicians are the most wicked people in the planet. If we don't change from these ways, we will always be consider the lowest in the human chain. United we strong and divided we fall.
OK - I'll give you one thing that has improved: Average life expectancy of a sub-saharan African in 1880 was about 25 years - today it is 65+ years. I could go through hundreds of other metrics that have improved from education to healthcare - but you are right - Most African Leaders post Independence failed big time and the lack of true luminaries is glaring. A few like Nyerere (Tanzania) had their hearts and aspirations in the right place - the execution however was hampered by ideology. Africa has growing pains - hopefully it will mature.
The problems will persist as long as you keep blaming the West and playing the victim instead of realising the Africans themselves are the problem.
@@frankyyaggabot6222 Nyerere blocked the one Africa movement. He aint no saint.
@@kukamusa1947 He had common sense - One Africa is an idiotic idea that typically exists in the minds of foreigners. Nyerere made many mistakes (which he acknowledged - rare in a leader) but remains the one leader in Africa that 1) Struck out on his own terms. 2) Successfully protected his borders alone from invasion (Uganda, supported materially by Libya) and in so doing overthrew an African Dictator and handed the country back to Ugandans. 3) Completed the language unification of the country (Kiswahili) started by the Germans and British. 4) Recognised the potential problem that foreign Pan-Africans were causing (especially after the Zanzibari massacres) and imprisoned them as they would have plunged the region into civil and tribal war.
@@frankyyaggabot6222 He just wanted to be called a president that all. 54 useless country. Nothing he achieved as as a leader. The socialism failed. Note am a kenyan, so sorry, but no.
Can we not accept that racism and racists exist? Parsing every scrap and dissecting every statement seems like an exercise in futility and a quick way to end up in the madhouse.
Just exhausting!
Beautiful people with a rich culture and diversity, the very first people (Earthlings).
Just like every continent
@@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv Im seeing this new trend of whenever someone says something positive about Africa/African culture, someone always has to pops in and says something along the lines of "TheY ArEn't tHe OnLY Ones"... the commentator never said other continents were not beautiful... jeez
@@JDStar1295 because Africa still has slavery and tourism is low in their countries
@@JDStar1295 also, in USA they commit majority of crime
@@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv WTF does this have to do with anything?
Germany could have ruled the world if the WWl and WWll had not crushed Germany. Today we all would be speaking German and not English around the world.
Yeah okay. 😂
It really feels like all Europeans are recovering memory of their dark ugly past...Good thing
Nah,we don't give a hoot about the past ,you can't change it,just like death
Would you like me to recount some African and Asian History - I can find you far darker episodes? The Western World (which we live in) has lots of negatives but has also been the apex of humanity across a whole spectrum of human achievements. A comparative cultural assessment would not be terribly wise!
Very interesting subject . thank you
The Russian photographer, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) began taking pictures on glass slides in three colours from 1905. A collection of his photos of pre-revolutionary Russia is held at the US Library of Congress, Washington DC. High definition prints, digitally merged, are publicly available to download at no cost. R (Australia)
Stunning and brave...
Germany has such an interesting history.
The only country in the world which had every major ideology and form of governance: Monarchy, imperialism, democracy, social-imperialism, nationalsocialism (Nazism), communism, socialism, social-democracy.
But the Mercedes Benz also belongs to them💙
@@aamirilyas10so does Opel, Volkswagen, BMW and Audi
What about Austria?
@@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv
It was annexed by Nazi Germany, so it was a part of another country during that time, imperialism is debatable since Austria-Hungary didn’t have colonies and I also don’t think that it had ever a communist and socialist government.
@@aamirilyas10
Huh? Do you mean to the political ideologies?
Humans are selfish but can also be kind. Selfish behaviour is not limited to one etnic group. Africans behaved appallingly to their own by facilitating the slave trade, rounding up people for profit or other benefits. The Arabs and the Ottomans traded in slaves and transported many people around the world - many more people than the UK. The Vikings invaded many lands, as did the Romans, the Egyptians used slaves. The list is endless.
The Vikings invaded my land Ireland yes, plundered and killed, and they founded cities and town here after battles with native Irish. What they did NOT do was brutally, systemically colonise us for hundreds of years, destroying our language and culture, starve 2 million of us to death while they exported all our food to England under armed guard, and strip our country bare of forests. It took the Brits to do that.
Don't conflate wars of aggression between armies to the dehumanising process of colonial subjugation and oppression of whole nations.
The Africans who participated in slave trade did so only under duress after they were defeated. This documentary is not about slave trade. Stop deflecting
@@MountH212 Nice try at deflection yourself - in West Africa the African Chiefs provided a solution for the European holdings in America - they sold slaves to the Europeans on their terms and prior to the Europeans making inroads into Africa. The only defeat of African Chiefs came later when specific chiefs did not want to end the slave trade (the story of how Nigeria came into being). In East Africa the slave trade was also endemic with tribes there even selling members of their own tribe into slavery. Bantu peoples were also famously regarded as the natural masters of Pygmies in Africa and their expansion led to the eradication of Bush Peoples in most of Africa.
@@frankyyaggabot6222 History is written by the victor and 90% of what Europeans wrote about slavery is false. What do you expect when the same person who committed a crime recounts the crime? I am a scholar and I can show hard proof to what I say. Do you have any proof? Certainly not
@@MountH212 A scholar who doesn't even understand the foundational dynamics of the Transatlantic Slave Trade? You must be one of these modern scholars I hear so much about?
Your expertise apparently is the declaration that you are a scholar ... wow that's impressive - so was I way-back except I never felt the need to express that as the sole pretext for the validation of my works (you let that speak for itself).
If you are going to feed me a diatribe of Pan-African, Wakandarised, Kwanza'd tripe - please don't I have high blood pressure and can't afford to dissolve into bursts of laughter.
I'm from Africa (Kenya) - you can talk to Kamba people in Kenya today who relate how their fore-fathers told them about the long chains of peoples their chiefs sold into slavery (there are even photos from that period by the way). Machakos was originally built by the Zanzibari for a Kamba chieftain for the express purpose of corralling slaves. Nigerians and other West Africans will also relate the same about their fore-fathers.
You have the first-hand accounts of European Explorers corroborated by Arab and African Slavers (Tippu-Tip, Chief Kivoi, ... ). There are documents, ships digests, etc. ...
You seriously have to be a deluded fool encompassed by the fantastical world of Pan-African BS to believe this stuff never happened as recounted and corroborated by numerous sources.
I’ll never forget a conversation I had with a new acquaintance I’d met in Berlin who very shockingly on a stroll through the city when the conversation turned to colonialism (doesn’t it always?😅) offered, „…Aber Deutschland unterscheidet sich insofern von anderen europäischen Ländern, als wir keine Geschichte der Kolonisierung haben…“
What? It was literally called the BERLIN Conference! Also, there’s Namibia… and well, ask the ethnic groups almost wiped out by the Germans if they understand her ignorance…
English translation for anyone wondering - "But Germany is different from other European countries when we have no history of colonization".
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Very interesting documentary. Thank you very much.
Sad part is that the people who could stand to learn from this, will not watch this. 😢
@@joebrewer4529how can history be anything but subjective? It's written by humans.. humans with biases and opinions and beliefs. It's always written from the point of view of the powerful and the victorious
@@joebrewer4529white people being racist isn’t subjective.
@@LadyCeCeFromThaDirtylook at that, black people being racist isn't subjective.
@darex9947
It depends on the type of history though, and for the type you're describing doesn't always include the story
I like it how academics would like to see some 120 years old images simply censored - without directly saying it. These photos are history. Just like wokism, very soon.
Can you please explain Wokeism, in your own words?
With this foundational approach to thinking, do we really think that we can save ourselves by colonizing outer space when we have never demonstrated the capacity to manage our own planet?
We are quite good at colonizing, actually.
So you fear we will abuse the indigenous people of Mars? How stupid.
Good to see DW letting the world know about atrocities the Germans committed in my country
Go back then.
Angola was a Portuguese colony
@@cryptospacexxxit6281doesn’t change the facts though
For a more subtle case of photography as colonialist propaganda consider the case of Robert Capa. Among a total of 303 photographs taken by Capa in Israel/Palestine in 1948 only ONE shows the face of a Palestinian. In this way, Capa simply erased an inconveniently indigenous people's existence by aiming his lens in only one direction.
Looking forward to an equally critical documentary by DW on Capa.
Thank you 🙏🏿will def look into this.
@@nicholasali2182 Check out recent peer-reviewed research by Dr Jørgen Jensehaugen at Oslo University. See: "Photographing 1948: Robert Capa’s Absent Palestinians", Journal of Palestine Studies (2023)
Palestinians aren't indigenous, they migrated from future east and erased the original inhabitants, who were a now extinct genetic subset of Europeans. (Mediterranean European)
They did the same thing in Egypt.
Original colonization, and two of the most successful genocides in human history.
@@mjanny6330 You need to broaden your research
I don't know what the politics beyond the pictures are but the photos are gorgeous they're not racism is this is ridiculous your thumbnail.
Clickbait
He must have had a lot antiquities from Africa in his apartment that were destroyed and lost forever in the WWll bomb attack. Very sad. If he hadn't taken them to Germany they would exist today.
SOUTH AFRICA AND NAMIBIA NEEDS TO RECLAIM ALL THERE LAND. PERIOD AND YES BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
Does DW seriously fondly believe Africa is one big happy country populated by one big happy black family?????
The ignorance in this video is astounding!
Well, it is the narrative today...
Cope racist
@@LadyCeCeFromThaDirty Is that what you are?
France still has colonies in Africa.
Not really
Economic colonies that pay a hefty financial tribute to France.
So what if they have colonies..Those people's leaders connived with whoever colonised them.
@@isaymymind1727 Yes, the corrupt greedy leaders, they always betray their people.
@@isaymymind1727so what ? Is that France refuse to admit it, and pretend she would still in the security council without those ( colonies) and the franc cfa .
There’s a song by Rammstein called Auslander. The song plays with colonialist imagery, these photos made me think of that parodic song.
How are these photos "racialized?"🤔
I expected more, I thought it was going somehow to make a relation between colonialism and today’s state of affairs in Africa. Honestly it would be better, and not just showing some photos to show fake empathy.
The only things that make a human better than snother is EDUCATION + WEALTH
So true.
Which is produced via a superior culture.
That's why the German (Indo-European) was taking colored photographs of people who were still using obsidian projectiles? 😂. Yeah, their culture definitely wasn't and isn't still superior 😂
Don't forget Wisdom.
You're welcome for it in America!
What about paint 🎨 🖼 that gave the artist 👩🎨 an opportunity to reflect an image?
Thank you for sharing our great grandparents stories!👏
Thanks for watching!
Psychopaths in suits and ties
Those are called politicians
past that - people are Psychopaths in suits and ties@@dpt6849
Don't forget the psychopaths in skin hides who let the slave master in and were tasked with fetching other black people to sell as slaves..why do we not talk of them today? That same behaviour persists today as black african leaders are selling their countries to the highest bidder. Talk of that if you believe charity begins at home
@dpt6849 You see?
People think politics is necessary. Politics is the most unnecessary thing that has ever happened.
thank you for the video
“Degree of civilization “ …. Define …
Russia is the only country in the modern era which still has this mentality officially.
Nice way to shift the blame of western crimes against the indigenous African people. Why is it so hard for settler imperialist western people to answer for their crimes? Rather, they project their insecurities onto other people or out right obfuscate and gaslight.
Really? Do you seriously believe the other Europeans have changed?
Many others too. Iran still think they are the Persian empire, and they try to govern the whole Middle-Near East. Besides, Arabs think they are the superior race of the whole muslim world. China is actually an empire that has subjugated hundreds of different cultures and populations, and still does (just the same than India). And a long etc. But the legions of people like you think Europeans are the bad ones.
@@ypk7858 well... Iran still think they are the Persian empire, and they try to govern the whole Middle-Near East. Besides, Arabs think they are the superior race of the whole muslim world. China is actually an empire that has subjugated hundreds of different cultures and populations, and still does (just the same than India). And a long etc. But all these people think Europeans are the bad ones.
Mmm life was peaches and cream before the evil colonialists. People lived in peace, there was no poverty, slavery, wars...
I don’t understand. I just see photos of people in Africa. What is it that makes these photos somehow racist or offensive?
Did you watch the video? I think it explained how the pictures accompanied racist propaganda.
to be honest, the Kaiserreich and the thousand (12) year regime
learned all they needed to know about racism and othering from the
brits, french, belgian and dutch empires.
particularly the later 2.
Dutchies unite!!!
Legends....Fantastic level of entertainment.....
Hard truth: Colonization is what helped underdeveloped countries move forward in modern times.
I Never understood the length of evil until I visited Germany.
Lmaooo you have not visited Belgium
Times... When colors of skin is matter, white = human, non white = not human
Obviously don't follow the media narrative in the United States do you?
You sure ? Ever heard of Slavs ?
@@randyraudi7725 do you know african pigmi? In American Zoo?.... Can u imagine human in a zoo?
@@narakuotomo8431 There were no TVs back then, and Germans are curious people, they like to see other cultures.
They should just play Rammstein's 'Auslander' as the background music.
Thanks for showing the world that colonialism is slavery. And that all colonial powers owe billions to these nations to help them build modern societies, especially Tower cities connected to maglev Trains.
You’re joking right?
Do u even know if Europeans wouldn't have imported their knowledge African people wouldn't have even knew how to write or read till a century later
@@playthegame7445 please tell me that's a "bad joke" lol and if your serious, how old are you
@@GTAVIDream Thats absolutely true, just do a bit of research.
1st off im not an NPC, that just goes with whatever the media says, I can do my own research.
If Europeans wouldn't have transferred their knowledge then Africa as a continent would have been way way behind then they are now.
Just look at their infrastructure, they havent built anything since the Europeans have left
@@playthegame7445 You are very wrong, Ethiopia was never Colonized and they have great architecture and education
Made of real Stardust. Turn into Gold and Diamonds. Beautiful documentary.
Europeans were at the top, Asians were in the middle.... 😂 😂 The Chinese discovered gunpowder. Europeans stole the technology like every thing else.
Did the pics serve as a source to explain why the Nazi party started to believe that the Aryan race was superior?
Nah, you just have to look at the surrounding countries to know that lol
DW was right to give the warning at the beginning. I couldn't finish watching. Germany has an interesting history - the fact that these pictures are still in circulation without the right context is disturbing.
This is a really good documentary. I would just like to say that it seemed to me Lohmeyer may have suffered from depressed self-esteem, where you often come to evaluate others as more valuable than yourself. This inferiority feeling conflicts with the existential human psychological need to feel positively distinct from others. As such, he engaged in a strategy to restore his self-esteem, by downplaying the value of Africans. He couldn't do that amongst his own people because evaluating other people of one’s own social group can also indirectly mean devaluing oneself. So he made it his life's mission to devalue a social group to which he did not belong. This behavior is consistent with the theoretical perspective, people with low self-esteem tend to show in-group favoritism, racism, sexism, isolationism and political extremism, and less support for democratic values. Thus, the evidence suggests that low self-esteem is indeed related to prejudice because negative evaluations of others are a way to compensate for one's own shortcomings. 5'4" probably 5'2". 😂
🎯💯 unbalanced Shorter men will always be jealous of taller men. Being 6'6 people want to box you in immediately to make themselves feel adequate.
What book is that ?
Ask citizens of EU if racism still exist
Amazing documentary as always 👍.
Thank you very much for your comment!
Theres no degradation of the people. Its truth. They do differ from tribe to tribe. Like Scandinavians and spanish or italians. Would like to see his collection of old africa pictures without your racist opinions
And the mix of it will be the best in this world because they don’t belong to anyone but to everyone
If you love Namibia you need to think big. Germany is the fourth largest industrial country in the world and they invest in China, Indonesia, America, Mexico, Brazil, etc. Why not more in Africa too spacialy in Namibia? Africa is the richest continent in the world in soil, treasures, minerals, fruits etc., but the people are the poorest in the world, they fight against each other and blame Europe for the past., Europe in particular Germany pays billions to Africa but hardly helps anything. Invite Germany to invest big in Namibia, to help the economy.
No we're good, German is being taken over by Middle Eastern, work on your home. Leave us alone, we're Africans
and these countries teach Russia how to live?
Why are you shaming Shlomo?
Sad 😢😢
Its very good that Germans lost their african colonies after first World War. Otherwise more genocides would have had happened like in Namibia
Thank god the others didn’t do the same 😁
@@Tobi-ln9xr Congo Belga!
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That was sarcasm.
@@Tobi-ln9xr I guessed it!
And what were the consequences the colonizers have to face for their atrocities?
Because these lands were a paradise before Europeans showed up….
That saddest part is this propaganda worked perfectly. It made people act on lies.
Honestly shocked DW is talking negatively of imperialism
Really? I've seen multiple docs by them where they do that
Bullshit. No one in Europe is trying to hide from the era of colonialism. Sure you have some far-right douches, like everywhere in the world. But it is thought in the schools and no serious politician or journalist is negating it.
DW is 10000% woke and pumps out left wing media non-stop. DW doesn't want ethnic Germans to exist, they even deny a German ethnicity exists, because saying you exist would be racist
Never seen before!
Then they say just forget it and move on
Most people do…👍
Forget it move on
@@TheAArmstrong Then you shouldn't be wining about anything
I have been watching a couple of documentaries from DW, each time it touches topics related to racism, the amount of dislikes and racist comments are insanely high... interesting.
Dislikes can't be seen, except with tools that often get them wrong. But you're right about the second part, the extreme and unfounded racism towards Europeans in the comments is out of control.
@@mjanny6330 first, I think the dislikes tools give good estimations, been pretty consistent so far..
Secondly, I meant racism towards non white people..
Yes I noticed that too especially if the documentaries are about non European people.
Does this channel do anything else apart from foster racism ?
Now talk about Eastern colonialism and how Arab empires tried to colonise the west and North Africa long before Europeans colonised.
Oh that’s right you won’t do that because you don’t want to be called Islamophobic 😂
Of course they won't, Germany will eventually be a Muslim country so this german channel won't teach facts that paint Muslims in a bad light lol. Very sad
Now do a documentary about Arab Islam in Africa, whilst you consider it take account of Shari'a today in Northern Nigeria and Libya.
Go on you know justice has scales to balance humanity out.
Maybe at some point stop blaming Europe for your present failures? Maybe do something on your own besides complain? Living in the past isn't going to help your future.
Dude,africa is stil colonized.for example I am from north africa and we had our own country in upper north in current northern morocco ( used to be rif republic) the french came to the land put a puppet there ,they all fought our republic and morocco is now ruled by the west and the kings is their puppet .
@@azadam1000Dude, North Africans colonized huge parts of Europe for over 800 years. You owe reparations.
you are wrong and here is why .1 the christians in spain used to be very restrictive and violent agsint other christians ,so many christians actually were happy when the north africans came because live actually improved a lot (science and safety ) and the empire laid down foundation for west so that claimed scientific revolution after reading our stuff. The french however brought only misery and divide and conquer strategy . . @@MH-ro1lg