This seminar discusses a colonial scandal which occurred in the German colony of Togo and attracted considerable attention in Imperial Germany. It analyses the social, economic, and political background to the events in Togo as well as the coverage in Germany, focusing on what was left out in the reporting and how silence can bear significance.
Rebekka Habermas is Professor of Modern History at the University of Göttingen and is currently Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the University of Oxford. She specializes in gender history, the history of crime and law, the history of missions, and German colonial history. Her publications include Diebe vor Gericht (2008), Frauen und Männer des Bürgertums (2002), and Wallfahrt und Aufruhr (1991).
