Mute stones speak of Germany’s colonial crimes

<p><strong>BERLIN, Germany</strong>&nbsp;&mdash; Lying alongside tombstones at the Columbiadamm cemetery in Berlin&rsquo;s Neuk&ouml;lln district sits the Herero stone, splashed in red paint, to symbolize the blood spilled by the Kaiser Franz Guard-Grenadier Regiment Nr. 2.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/0*3_eeU9d8owQc4BXK" style="height:467px; width:700px" /></p> <p>The Herero Stone sitting in the Columbiadamm cemetery.</p> <p>Put up in 1907, the stone commemorates the seven fallen soldiers who fought in the Kaiser&rsquo;s army in German southwest Africa, in present-day Namibia. The untold story is more important: What the monument failed to acknowledge was the nearly 100,000 Africans who perished at the hands of the regiment.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/berlin-beyond-borders/mute-stones-speak-of-germanys-colonial-crimes-5bfd10d022e0"><strong>Learn More</strong></a></p>