Director hopes to educate Germans about ‘brutal’ colonial history of mass killings in early 20th century
t was one of the darkest eras in German history, and the first genocide of the 20th century: the mass killing of tens of thousands of people in German South WestMore than 100 years later, a feature film about the violence perpetrated by Germany in what is nowexplores that brutal colonial past for the first time. Its director hopes Measures of Men will bring the calamitous episode to the attention of ordinary Germans.
His attempts to rebut the pseudoscientific legitimisation of the superiority of white people over people from the colony of south-west Africa leads him to take first an intellectual and then a romantic interest in Kezia Kambazemi, the interpreter of a delegation of Nama and Herero people who are shipped to Berlin to participate in the Kaiser’s “Völkerschau”, or human zoo exposition.
“I cannot comprehend the fact that we have these skulls, like artefacts, stored in ethnological museums,” he said. “I cannot understand why they are still being kept and have not been given back.
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