New working paper published on colonial violence in German New Guinea

In it, his­to­ri­an Eva Kün­kler pro­vides a sys­tem­at­ic overview of mil­i­tary vi­o­lence and so-called puni­tive ex­pe­di­tions in the for­mer Ger­man colo­nial ter­ri­to­ries in Ocea­nia. Nu­mer­ous cul­tur­al ob­jects and hu­man re­mains found their way in­to Ger­man col­lec­tions and mu­se­ums from these colo­nial ter­ri­to­ries. The in­for­ma­tion com­piled in the work­ing pa­per aims to sup­port fu­ture prove­nance re­search projects.

The overview has been pub­lished in the se­ries Work­ing Pa­per Deutsches Zen­trum Kul­turgutver­luste on the Max We­ber Foun­da­tion pub­li­ca­tion plat­form www.per­spec­tivia.net and can be down­load­ed from there free of charge un­der https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2022-00056.
Eva Kün­kler has pre­vi­ous­ly pub­lished a sys­tem­at­ic overview of mil­i­tary vi­o­lence and so-called puni­tive ex­pe­di­tions in Ger­man colo­nial ter­ri­to­ries in Africa in the same se­ries. This work­ing pa­per is like­wise avail­able free of charge at https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2022-00001.

Pub­lished on­line at ir­reg­u­lar in­ter­vals, the se­ries Work­ing Pa­per Deutsches Zen­trum Kul­turgutver­luste com­pris­es texts on cur­rent re­search top­ics from all ar­eas of ac­tiv­i­ty fund­ed by the Foun­da­tion: these in­clude dossiers, guide­lines, re­search aids, re­search re­ports and overviews of cul­tur­al prop­er­ty ex­pro­pri­at­ed as a re­sult of Nazi per­se­cu­tion or due to armed con­flict, cul­tur­al prop­er­ty seizures in the So­vi­et zone of oc­cu­pa­tion/GDR, and cul­tur­al goods and col­lec­tions from colo­nial con­texts.