Mute stones speak of Germany’s colonial crimes
<p><strong>BERLIN, Germany</strong> — Lying alongside tombstones at the Columbiadamm cemetery in Berlin’s Neukölln district sits the Herero stone, splashed in red paint, to symbolize the blood spilled by the Kaiser Franz Guard-Grenadier Regiment Nr. 2.</p>
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<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’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>
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