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Berlin swaps signs on streets with colonial names

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Dagmar Wittek
December 2, 2022

Berlin exchanges the names of German colonialists in Namibia and Cameroon for those of resistance fighters. Two new street signs were unveiled in the presence of the ambassadors of the two countries.

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