Berlin renames streets honoring colonialists | DW News

in Berlin where activists have been querying the German capital's colonial past. The country was part of the early European rush - formalized by the Berlin conference in 1884 - to build empires. And in Africa,
Germany colonized territory in modern-day Togo, Cameroon, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania and Namibia. It lost them all following the First World War, but that was after it had carried out mass atrocities in some of these places - particularly the genocide in Namibia.
Some of the colonial administrators were celebrated here, even having streets and monuments named after them. A group of activitists have made it their mission to have those names changed - and after years of intense lobbying, they've made major progress.

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