In March of 2013 a group of historians hacked the German Historical Museum (Deutsches Historisches Museum or DHM) in Berlin. The members of the group Kolonialismus im Kasten? (Colonialism in the Box?) reimagined those parts of the permanent exhibition that dealt with or, according to them, ought to have dealt with Germany’s colonial past. Initially, they organized alternative museum tours. Later they provided an app with which visitors could call up alternative texts about the DHM’s showpieces. These texts reminded the visitors of events such as the series of medical tests that Robert Koch performed on people from Africa or the sensationalist Völkerschauen (Ethnographic Zoos) of the world fairs of the 1900s. This guerrilla campaign in the DHM exemplifies the newest turn in the German culture of remembrance with its exemplary place, subject matter, and battlefield: Berlin, (post)colonialism, and the museum. After the turn of the millennium, a postcolonial dynamic slowly began to appear in the public sphere that has become highly conspicuous today. Germany’s colonial history—a topic that for a long time interested merely a few specialists—seems ready to be consumed by the masses. I will argue that this shift is representative of a new German culture of remembrance that I identify as

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德国的殖民记忆世界化

2013 年 3 月，一群历史学家入侵了柏林的德国历史博物馆（Deutsches Historisches Museum 或 DHM）。Kolonialismus im Kasten 小组的成员？（盒子里的殖民主义？）重新构想了永久展览的那些部分，这些部分处理或根据他们的说法应该处理德国的殖民历史。最初，他们组织了另类博物馆之旅。后来他们提供了一个应用程序，访问者可以使用该应用程序调用有关 DHM 展品的替代文本。这些文字提醒游客一些事件，例如罗伯特·科赫 (Robert Koch) 对来自非洲的人进行的一系列医学测试，或者 1900 年代世界博览会的耸人听闻的 Völkerschauen（民族志动物园）。DHM 的这次游击活动以其模范的地点、主题、和战场：柏林、（后）殖民主义和博物馆。千禧年之后，一种后殖民主义的动力慢慢开始出现在今天已经非常引人注目的公共领域。德国的殖民历史——一个长期以来只有少数专家感兴趣的话题——似乎已经准备好被大众消费了。我认为这种转变代表了一种新的德国记忆文化，我认为它是