According to Deutsche Welle, ARD identified about 1,000 skulls that originated from what is now Rwanda and about 60 from Tanzania. The existence of such a collection in European museums is both disturbing and not at all surprising. European museums staged “human zoos,” where people from various indigenous communities in far-flung colonies would be put on display in invented habitats, like caged animals. Some of the remains detailed in the Berlin collection are believed to belong to insurgents killed by German troops during various colonial wars. In the past five years alone, according to Deutsche Welle, Germany has returned human remains found in its museums to former colony Namibia, and to Australia and Paraguay.

Source: Washington Post November 25, 2016 11:02 UTC