{"id":5226,"date":"2013-08-12T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T10:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glokal.org\/luederitz-goes-to-namibia-and-stays-in-munich\/"},"modified":"2013-08-12T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T10:28:51","slug":"luederitz-goes-to-namibia-and-stays-in-munich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glokal.org\/en\/luederitz-goes-to-namibia-and-stays-in-munich\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u00fcderitz goes to Namibia &#8211; and stays in Munich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Nambia, <a title=\"DW: German place names disappear\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/deutsche-ortsnamen-verschwinden\/a-17009617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two towns and a stretch of coastline<\/a> were renamed last week by President Hifikepunye Pohamba. The names L\u00fcderitz, Schuckmannsburg and the Caprivi Strip thus disappear from the map.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, on the other hand, colonial street names remain despite a variety of protests. In Munich, for example, the city council rejected a request by the Foreigners&#8217; Advisory Council to rename streets named after colonial criminals and mass murderers. An <a title=\"Press release campaign alliance street renaming\" href=\"http:\/\/neu.isdonline.de\/massenmorder-werden-in-munchen-weiterhin-mit-strasennamen-geehrt\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ISDOnline+%28ISD-Online%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alliance of civil society organizations and initiatives<\/a> is now calling for a responsible decolonization of Munich&#8217;s street names.<\/p>\n<p>Current exhibitions on colonial street names and the resistance against them can be found in <a title=\"Kreuzberg Museum: Colonial history on the shore\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kreuzbergmuseum.de\/index.php?id=17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berlin<\/a>, <a title=\"Freedom Roads Exhibition\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freedom-roads.de\/frrd\/willkom.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamburg and Munich<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Nambia, two towns and a stretch of coastline were renamed last week by President Hifikepunye Pohamba. The names L\u00fcderitz, Schuckmannsburg and the Caprivi Strip thus disappear from the map. 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