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Annelise Finney

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Efforts to decolonize Berlin as UN calls for reparations to right ‘historical wrongs’

May 5, 2026DW

Annelise Finney reports for DW’s Inside Europe about the global process of historical reckoning — requiring former colonizing countries to come to terms with the darker sides of their past — with a focus on Berlin’s efforts.

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