Returning colonial looted art to its countries of origin | DW Documentary

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  • @zeissiez
    @zeissiez Год назад +417

    Question: why are there pyramids in Egypt?
    Answer: because they were too big to be moved to the British Museum.

    • @myvicval7506
      @myvicval7506 Год назад +26

      Exactly

    • @cinnamonstar808
      @cinnamonstar808 Год назад

      they have walls and walls from ancient Greeks artifacts. Parthenon Marbles etc. Greece want back all their items.
      all the Empirical Chinese items and blue vases = are also requested back by China = no answer
      Mesopotamia... inside the British Museum
      Tons of artifacts from the Americas. I totally forgot they invaded Scandinavian countries and took their stuff too.
      THE CORE REASON: is the fault creation of superiority with no history to back it up; created this need to prove culture and history. its a lie that it taken for "safe keeping" Its taken to remove the pride of the people; they invaded without permission.
      How petty to take an Scottish crowning bench and put it under the English Throne? its 100% envy.
      but those people ancestors left their art for their descendants to enjoy. it wrong to move it out of their land and put it into yours.
      *** Pyramids were too heavy to move; but they did cut down + move Ancient Egyptian Obelisks in the 1800's
      and place them in European cities and USA cities. which is nuts!!

    • @maheshecc
      @maheshecc Год назад +25

      Same goes for Taj Mahal and many other monuments of India.

    • @Jokani1
      @Jokani1 Год назад +9

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @hondaxyz
      @hondaxyz Год назад +11

      French tried to take away the gates from a buddhist stupa in Sanchi from India but they were heavy.

  • @Earth098
    @Earth098 Год назад +142

    Returning of looted art is very important for Germany itself. Because it symbolizes Germany's stance today. That colonialism was brutal and wrong. Which something Britain, for example, has failed to do so far. On the other hand, Germany is full of historical castles, towns, and cities. So why do they need looted art.

    • @alfredoalcantar8691
      @alfredoalcantar8691 Год назад +2

      But empires did that along time ago, so what’s the difference?

    • @101spacemonkey
      @101spacemonkey Год назад +6

      You should check out Portugal and France. Britain is bad, but it is having a discussion, some other countries don't even do that

    • @damiester1
      @damiester1 Год назад +10

      I respect Germany for doing what Britain refuses to do.

    • @damiester1
      @damiester1 Год назад +17

      @@alfredoalcantar8691The difference is that people from places such as India, China, Philippines and all of the African countries etc... would love to see evidence of their culture without having to travel to the other sides of the planet. Culture is very important for education and other societal needs.

    • @machadojoel10
      @machadojoel10 Год назад +10

      @@101spacemonkeyWell Britain has the biggest museum in the world with looted artifacts so pointing your fingers at others won’t really do much

  • @thehoneydeev
    @thehoneydeev Год назад +124

    To the white lady saying that the looted art in Germany were looted by the kingdom of Benin from neighboring kingdoms, I say: let the Africans figure this out for themselves once the looted art is in their motherland. It’s not up to you a German to decide how this African matter should be resolved 🙏🏽.

    • @Sunnyside5774
      @Sunnyside5774 Год назад +23

      Thank you very much, as a Nigerian from the Benin tribe I've never heard of it and she's just trying to defend the evil they've done.

    • @monochromicornthetuna4256
      @monochromicornthetuna4256 Год назад +8

      @@Sunnyside5774 😭I'm Benin too and we make that art and trade it; at least, according to what I know. Have you seen our artisans? Igun Street? Sounds like she's trying to justify nonsense fr

    • @ilianailieva9309
      @ilianailieva9309 Год назад

      💯💯💯💯

    • @Baronnax
      @Baronnax Год назад +1

      That's a great argument but it won't work, we're assuming she actually gives a shit about who the rightful owners are. Colonial apologists will kick out all your teeth and tell you that you should be grateful since they knocked out a cavity.

    • @Jose-jr5ib
      @Jose-jr5ib Год назад +2

      So give em to slaver descendants ok buddy

  • @ghordibarifilms
    @ghordibarifilms Год назад +166

    The AUDACITY to rationalize with giving back what was NOT YOURS TO TAKE is utterly and completely baffling to me.

    • @vibrantwoman1323
      @vibrantwoman1323 Год назад +17

      The Leopard does not change its spots.

    • @ShortFuseFighting
      @ShortFuseFighting Год назад

      @@vibrantwoman1323 yeah but somehow that only applies to whites. never a single word about africans being at constant war with each other since the dawn of mankind. arabs taking over half of africa and southern europe, azteks, inca and mayans decimating anything and anyone they ever came across...nope. lets play "blame whitey". blacks slaughtering each other at a ratio of like 10000:1? nah, lets make a big stink when ONE jewish latino man shot an unarmed black hoodlum rummaging around in a cul de sac ONE TIME instead. cause... "FAIRNESS"!

    • @shortznig2938
      @shortznig2938 Год назад +2

      Why are you crying about it tho.

    • @Lilly-leaf
      @Lilly-leaf Год назад +6

      @@shortznig2938 why are you crying about having to give it back like a bunch of spoilt, entitled toddlers???

    • @peterporkeresq.2817
      @peterporkeresq.2817 Год назад +1

      Yeah, I caught that as well. When you consider this guys were discussing on their national television, if they should test covid vaccine in Africa just 3 years ago, this shouldn't be a shock to anyone.

  • @SonyThamrin
    @SonyThamrin Год назад +160

    This reminds me that the Dutch government has not yet returned loot art to Indonesia. They took ancient artifacts and gold jewelry from several local kingdoms during the colonial period.

    • @Pleezath
      @Pleezath Год назад +8

      We have done that recently.

    • @koiyujo1543
      @koiyujo1543 Год назад +3

      @@Pleezath really?

    • @Pleezath
      @Pleezath Год назад +4

      @@koiyujo1543 not all but yeah

    • @theaceofknaves3285
      @theaceofknaves3285 Год назад +12

      @@Pleezath And you want a medal for that?

    • @Pleezath
      @Pleezath Год назад +4

      @@theaceofknaves3285 to you we say: doe ff normaal man

  • @sanusiebarrie7225
    @sanusiebarrie7225 Год назад +400

    Where would Europe be without looted properties

    • @copyRtest1
      @copyRtest1 Год назад +1

      Where would their victims be if morally righteous Christian Europeans didn't feel it was right to leave them to live and preserve their cultures? They could have killed everyone and burned everything as most nations have done in history

    • @theaceofknaves3285
      @theaceofknaves3285 Год назад +27

      Someone while walking the streets of London (with all it's wealth there to see) in early 20th century said that all he can smell is the sweat and blood of his countrymen (a colony). So yes, every brick in western europe will forever smell of that

    • @mattbudesa6351
      @mattbudesa6351 Год назад +26

      It would be just fine. Lol. Looted properties has nothing to do with progression of a country. What a silly comment.

    • @ignatiusryd2031
      @ignatiusryd2031 Год назад +22

      ​​@@mattbudesa6351 It does a lot to the progression of a country. As a nation you have no identity especially when those looted treasures were gone forever which unfortunately it contains a lot of historical meanings. Had that not the case then i wonder why it took very long for Europe to disbanding European monarchies by always citing "historical meanings" on it??

    • @steffengrossmann169
      @steffengrossmann169 Год назад +3

      Still f’kn impressive. Because you’re right … we never needed it in the first place.

  • @rufdymond
    @rufdymond Год назад +35

    Every time I’ve been to the British Museum, it’s always struck me that there’s practically nothing in there that is British…..

    • @NiKiMa023
      @NiKiMa023 Год назад +6

      Yikes. I wonder if that means their history and art, is mainly based in colonization

    • @uwotmate-d3m
      @uwotmate-d3m Год назад +1

      Obvious lies

    • @felixfungle-bung4688
      @felixfungle-bung4688 Год назад +2

      You've been to all 2,000 Museums in Britain?

  • @cocobenton378
    @cocobenton378 Год назад +49

    How is this complex? Give people their stolen items!!!

    • @peterporkeresq.2817
      @peterporkeresq.2817 Год назад

      🤷🏿‍♂

    • @lunamaxwell6190
      @lunamaxwell6190 Год назад +1

      All they do is make excuses in order to keep the stolen artifacts. In United States... museums, universities and private collectors are notorious for this.

    • @celinereyes1185
      @celinereyes1185 Год назад

      @@lunamaxwell6190you’re talking about the united states when literally every museum in england as STOLEN artifacts

  • @gloriaf6971
    @gloriaf6971 Год назад +131

    African art is so beautiful. I am glad some of it is being returned to the countries where it was created.

    • @OsazeSunday-rj8jk
      @OsazeSunday-rj8jk Год назад +1

      return to who was there Nigeria as a nation cos I want to know y it call Benin loot

    • @chuckredwood1675
      @chuckredwood1675 Год назад +7

      @@OsazeSunday-rj8jk benin was a kingdom in nigeria

    • @OsazeSunday-rj8jk
      @OsazeSunday-rj8jk Год назад

      @@chuckredwood1675 please was same Benin a city before Nigeria creation and please two is this Benin same as Edo state that is not up to what was in history record greeter done China note the city was not recorded as just as you will say to people is king ( oba) that was not in oyo history record back to my question in time of Benin city was there Nigeria if you true to yourself

    • @OsazeSunday-rj8jk
      @OsazeSunday-rj8jk Год назад

      @@chuckredwood1675 British is what please in your year and tell we the meant of loot in Africa way, it get y or is there a city without a nation or is Brazil as a nation with city before Benin as it is to nigeria

    • @shashank_Ranghad
      @shashank_Ranghad Год назад

      Bharat ka saman bhi wapas do.

  • @yaminatoday1151
    @yaminatoday1151 Год назад +12

    The Ethnologist's reasoning at 4:02 that the artifacts are being returned to Africans who were the descendants of both African slave traders AND African victims, is just her attempt to keep them in Germany - as if Germany doesn't have an atrocious history of its own; a fact which wouldn't exclude present day Germans from wanting their own ancient artifacts kept in Germany. What lame reasoning she gives.

  • @quincyquincy4764
    @quincyquincy4764 Год назад +83

    I have much respect for Germany. Rectifying past mistakes isn't easy but they are doing it with class

  • @josecarvajal6654
    @josecarvajal6654 Год назад +47

    I think they should be brought back to Benin. Americans often forget the vast majority of ensalved Africans actually came to the Caribbean and Brazil, under that logic most of the bronzes should be spreaded through out the Caribbean and Brazil, and only a small fraction to the US.
    Anyway, they were made in Benin, by the kingdom of Benin, so they should be in Benin

  • @kered112
    @kered112 Год назад +25

    The UK should return all of the treasures stolen from Africa

  • @josephinebrevig8748
    @josephinebrevig8748 Год назад +19

    Things are on the move world wide except in Britain! Clinging on to dear life to looted artifacts. Return the stolen loot.

  • @steffengrossmann169
    @steffengrossmann169 Год назад +21

    I’m a big supporter of ‘you must return of what’s not yours!’

  • @Franaflyby
    @Franaflyby Год назад +16

    The loot needed to go back to their roots.
    There really should have been nothing to think about.
    Especially over stolen artifacts.
    Respect to the Germans for their returning the stolen art.

  • @jishan6992
    @jishan6992 Год назад +49

    British museums: the secret ingredient is crime

    • @danielwhyatt3278
      @danielwhyatt3278 Год назад

      By some peoples’ modern interpretation. British museums are much fairer and have a much stronger claim to the vast majority of their internationally sourced art, clothing and sculpture now then many other European counterparts like Germany, France, Spain and the Netherlands.

    • @loriannrichardson7644
      @loriannrichardson7644 Год назад +2

      @@danielwhyatt3278 🤣🤣🤣

  • @musakam
    @musakam Год назад +18

    The Bronze Arts, date to the 13th century before slavery, some even much older, and were not made by coins use to buy slaves. African Americans should be part of the discussion, however, to denigrate the Benin kingdom by saying the Bronze Arts was made from coins the Europeans use to buy the slaves from Benin, is dishonest.

  • @THEchiQ
    @THEchiQ Год назад +11

    I have a friend whose vocation is repatriating Māori human remains to Aotearoa/NZ. It’s terrible how many collections include people.

  • @emmawu97
    @emmawu97 Год назад +31

    Can’t they just return the original art and create a replica of the item for the museums?

    • @wuuduu609
      @wuuduu609 Год назад +3

      youll go to museum to see laminate replicas? And pay for it?

    • @emmawu97
      @emmawu97 Год назад +10

      Yes, I would. I’m there to understand the history of the art. There’s no point in keeping the original there if museum has learned everything there is to know about it.
      Looted artwork is part of another country’s history and culture, and should always be returned to its country of origin.

    • @ryn2844
      @ryn2844 Год назад +6

      @@wuuduu609 Museums don't really run on ticket sales anyways. It's mostly volunteer work and government subsidies. But yes I'd do that. In museums where you go look at dinosaur bones and other fossils, those are all repicas too. I still love to go.

    • @cinnamonstar808
      @cinnamonstar808 Год назад +2

      They use to have HUMAN zoos and they weren't replicas from around the world either. 🍼 Baby steps

    • @ignatiusryd2031
      @ignatiusryd2031 Год назад +1

      ​@@wuuduu609 Why not?? Not every single items you saw in museum are the real items, some were just replicas from the original item somewhere either its because its too big to be brought to museum or the original items has been returned back to the rightful owner.

  • @JessieBanana
    @JessieBanana Год назад +10

    That is the most ridiculous argument. That items shouldn’t be returned because Benin kings looted. First pot-kettle. Second that is true on any continent. No one is suggesting that with Europe every item has to be returned to it’s original country of origin. We’re speaking of peoples who were robbed during colonialism, or in the case of Finland, the indigenous people’s who had their items taken. This isn’t about politics and wars between nation-states. This is an about Europe continuing to benefit from entire countries and continents they’ve exploited beyond repair in the relatively recent past. Don’t be obtuse.

  • @jaylews8893
    @jaylews8893 Год назад +19

    Why should be an African cultural artifact be on display in a European museum? They belong to the African people. The British govt, including the Royal family should be ashamed for not returning looted art. Shame on them!

    • @tomjones7184
      @tomjones7184 Год назад +1

      Cry more 🤣

    • @Vet0714
      @Vet0714 4 месяца назад

      Oh well, finders keepers.

  • @TravelLoverAdventures
    @TravelLoverAdventures Год назад +28

    In The Philippines also US and Spain took our ancestors treasures.

  • @charlesm7900
    @charlesm7900 Год назад +9

    Not even a debate. Theft is theft plain and simple.

    • @Pleezath
      @Pleezath Год назад +2

      It is debatable. Even a thief is expected to keep whatever item is stolen after a ammount of time. Where I live its 10 years. After that it's yours. I think those 10 years have definitely passed. It's Germany's now. But they be dumb and give their possessions away to the previous owners. While they could have kept it.

  • @daisyzhang-gk9uy
    @daisyzhang-gk9uy Год назад +14

    Finally hope that we can return to our original land as humans not only objects

  • @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602
    @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602 Год назад +17

    The Romans embellished the Colosseum, its palaces and villas with statues and other objects looted from Greece and Egypt. They did not plunder Germania, Galia and Hispania, because those were regions extremely less developed than Rome. Centuries after they were Romanized, Europeans repeated the same pattern in Africa, America and Asia. It will not be easy to abandon something so ingrained in European culture. But this is a fight where Europeans can really start to act as civilized peoples.

    • @NoName-hg6cc
      @NoName-hg6cc 5 месяцев назад

      1. Greece is Europe
      2. Roman had plenty of art

  • @Grumpymillennial
    @Grumpymillennial Год назад +4

    Thanks DW Documentary. Very informative and interesting.

  • @togatampubolon5948
    @togatampubolon5948 Год назад +6

    Recently Dutch government returned back 472 pieces of cultural artifacts that looted during colonial from Indonesia. While we appreciated the gesture however it had been better before the deed prosecuted the two governments must talk and set up the committee that involved historians, archeologist, and the royal families to recapitulate how many artifacts brought to Netherlands because there were hundred kingdoms from thousands islands in Indonesia that lost their heirlooms.

  • @HistoryHussar
    @HistoryHussar Год назад +29

    Western countries decided to make gestures like this mainly because it's good PR, while the economic exploitation of Africa continues (in the name of free trade and open markets, of course). Not only they get to profit from neocolonialism, but they also get a pat on the back for being "nice". Hypocrisy at its best :)
    I love how this piece mentions naughty Poland and compares it to nice Germany. Well, Poland is not exploiting other countries, unlike Germany. To me, this is much more important than PR gestures.

    • @jacques.cousteau
      @jacques.cousteau Год назад +3

      Is this "neocolonialism" in the room with us right now?😂😂

    • @HistoryHussar
      @HistoryHussar Год назад

      @@jacques.cousteau It's the name of the game, actually. Look at which countries are buying up land in Africa and making shady deals. Guess what, it's not just China, but also those countries that condemn China :)

    • @SithembisoNokula
      @SithembisoNokula Год назад

      sport on

    • @batrachian149
      @batrachian149 Год назад

      ​@@jacques.cousteaucring

    • @Ninjaguiden89
      @Ninjaguiden89 Год назад +1

      Hope you're aware that Poland has eroded the freedoms of its own population as you say this...

  • @ehatacho2183
    @ehatacho2183 Год назад +13

    British museum be like we will still keep it to keep it safe for future lol

    • @yommish
      @yommish Год назад

      unironically the argument some people make lol

    • @RD-zz6sx
      @RD-zz6sx Год назад +1

      Louvre as well, sadly.

  • @djordjepopovic5010
    @djordjepopovic5010 Год назад +3

    Here in Belgrade Serbia we have an African Museum of art. It is the only such museum where every item was either gifted to Serbia from africans or it was bought fairly from africans.

  • @ernestmbada5277
    @ernestmbada5277 Год назад +16

    It's about time. We should be the custodians of our art pieces.

  • @ZenBenzineX
    @ZenBenzineX Год назад +6

    It should not be so difficult to return something that was never yours in first place. British museum is listening, and doesnt like the idea!!! give all back to the rightful owners.

  • @masquarra
    @masquarra Год назад +6

    That Windsor monarchy walk round with their stolen jewels, Art, and are proud of their wickedness.

  • @TheStockwell
    @TheStockwell Год назад +50

    It's wonderful to see this happening more and more often. ❤️

    • @johan_johansson_
      @johan_johansson_ Год назад +2

      🥇🏆🏵

    • @Haniboy7911
      @Haniboy7911 Год назад +2

      It's about the time even their country will hand it over soon

  • @Roxadus460
    @Roxadus460 Год назад +13

    The Benin Bronzes Should be given back to Nigeria and in turn Nigeria should work with the decendants to come up with a way to display them that tell the story of both the culture of where they are from and the people

  • @shakiMiki
    @shakiMiki Год назад +21

    Well done to DW. I hadn't;t previously heard the perspective of descendants in the US. What the say needs to be examined properly of course, but this is the first time I have heard them induced in discussion. And it is an important contribution.

    • @jivekiwi
      @jivekiwi Год назад +1

      I was about to write the same thing myself. I have read many articles on the Benin Bronzes and yet DW are the first I've seen who even mention that side.

  • @somerandomfella
    @somerandomfella Год назад +26

    When will Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Canada & America be returned to their indigenous population? 🤔

    • @jjjones4865
      @jjjones4865 Год назад +2

      ANND, The Continent currently known as Africa!!!..j3

    • @josephmessner5312
      @josephmessner5312 Год назад +10

      When will native Americans go back to Siberia ?

    • @somerandomfella
      @somerandomfella Год назад +12

      How can you compare colonization with migration?

    • @josephmessner5312
      @josephmessner5312 Год назад +2

      Because we are all visitors to a land that someone else lived on, we’ve all warred with each other and stolen each others animals and possessions, we’ve put others into servitude. I 100 % support the return of the Benin Bronzes. Let’s return artifacts to the native Americans. I support that 100 %. Let the native Americans return the horses they’ve stolen and the scalps they claimed. If we’re going to do it as a world, let’s do it all the way. Let the Māori sail back to where they came from, too and return the things they stole in war parties.

    • @bobstar2683
      @bobstar2683 Год назад +8

      When is England returned from the Saxons?

  • @forme3h
    @forme3h Год назад +7

    The royal family of England should return their diamonds and all the precious gems then😂

  • @jamesfackrell8718
    @jamesfackrell8718 Год назад +5

    In this digital age, we should be able to 3-D duplicate any items and return the originals back to their home country

  • @ikhimiukorjerry2966
    @ikhimiukorjerry2966 Год назад +8

    The Kingdom of Benin barely had anything to do with the transatlantic slave. The King of Benin had abolished slave trade in the kingdom before the end of the 17th century. The Kingdom of Benin traded in pepper, oil palm and other spices.

    • @lavinder11
      @lavinder11 Год назад +6

      You call over 200 years of selling people to Europeans "barely"? And it ended in the 1860s, not 1600s.

    • @ikhimiukorjerry2966
      @ikhimiukorjerry2966 Год назад +7

      @@lavinder11 I used the term barely because the evidence that the Kingdom of Benin participated or derived it wealth from transatlantic slave trade is false. A Benin king was shot in his palace by a Dutch merchant because he was not willing to participate in that trade. There are historical documents written by European scholars themselves to prove this point.

    • @hillcrestprofessionalservi3502
      @hillcrestprofessionalservi3502 Год назад +2

      @@lavinder11 The Portuguese had convinced Benin to hand over their prisoners to them to go work in their country. So Benin obliged but when the Portuguese kept coming back and asking for more people that is when Benin ended the trade in persons. This is why the Europeans started trading with the Ashante in Ghana, the Oyo in Nigeria, and coastal chiefs in the bight of Brafia in Nigeria. Benin are a very spiritual people and the gods were against trade in persons and the practice was ended before it started. The majority of the people in Brazil and the Caribbean are Yorubas sold by the Oyo people through the port at Badagry, Igbos sold by the various chiefdoms in today's eastern Nigeria, and various tribes in Ghana sold from the Elmina castle at Cape Coast in Ghana.

    • @loriannrichardson7644
      @loriannrichardson7644 Год назад +1

      @@lavinder11 they were selling prisoners of war. Also, the enslaved of the Transatlantic slave trade experienced the most heinous, brutal form of slavery ever practiced. The Africans did not know just how badly those they sold were being treated. And not all were sold, many were kidnapped by Westerners.

  • @SithembisoNokula
    @SithembisoNokula Год назад +73

    this should not be even debate they were stolen and people died trying to protect them from thief's

  • @Theodisc
    @Theodisc Год назад +4

    That den of iniquity the British Museum could learn much from the Germans here in regards to being culturally sensitive for a start.

  • @sanam8952
    @sanam8952 Год назад +19

    I think if UK returns everything they took from India their musium will be empty. The funniest part is they will even have to return the queen's crown also 😂.

    • @SithembisoNokula
      @SithembisoNokula Год назад

      Europe has nothing no history no Art there history is world war 1 and 2

    • @kdas2000in
      @kdas2000in Год назад +8

      India should also return the loots done by chola empire to their original owners as well as compensate them.

    • @santhoshv3028
      @santhoshv3028 Год назад +3

      ​@@kdas2000inthose are not colonial period. Know the difference between colonialism and empire.

    • @ohGod.1244
      @ohGod.1244 Год назад

      ​@@kdas2000inplease take the pain and suffering thats the good thing they gave to us take it

  • @Roxadus460
    @Roxadus460 Год назад +3

    Am I the only one that is screaming about the priceless artifacts that are being handled without gloves???

  • @senguptasayn
    @senguptasayn Год назад +2

    Mending is always a welcome first step.deeply appreciate the gesture.

  • @vivekiyer2203
    @vivekiyer2203 Год назад +2

    I'm bemused when colonies insist on keeping treasures it stole/ looted/ smuggled, let us may be forego the jewels but there are artefacts, idols that represent the very soul of the land and has a massive cultural importance. Even more befuddled people from these colonies now provide an excuse of "it would be better here, as it's taken care of because if it were to given back to you, God knows what will happen!"; When in the first place itself, it's not theirs to decide! I do really appreciate Germany for doing necessary albeit lacking humility and kindness.

  • @ejakaegypt
    @ejakaegypt Год назад +14

    This should’ve been done. All of those artifacts were stolen!!

    • @ejakaegypt
      @ejakaegypt Год назад +9

      @@mattmccallum2007 taking something that isn’t yours is stealing.

  • @olsaffa7679
    @olsaffa7679 Год назад +1

    Yes, give all the art pieces back and let's appreciate that those pieces would have been sold or ruined by those who now claim them. Thank you Europe for saving pieces that allow many people to be proud of their history.

  • @acajoom
    @acajoom Год назад +25

    DW, you should make a dedicated documentary on the marbles of the Parthenon being held in the British Museum and not being returned to Greece where they belong.

    • @anderslunde861
      @anderslunde861 Год назад

      Yeah and the rest of the things they have stolen from other countries, like jewlery for India..

    • @mr.komentarz8416
      @mr.komentarz8416 Год назад +2

      DW should first focus on own all colonial crimies before they starts lecturing others . Bigges colonial crimes committed by the Germans are against Poland and to this day they have not returned thousands of works of art looted in museums in Poland

    • @thorable
      @thorable Год назад +2

      @@mr.komentarz8416 That would be the entire EU, rebranded Karen colonialism trying to keep their thumb on the world.

    • @danielwhyatt3278
      @danielwhyatt3278 Год назад

      Not returning those, and I support this. You can’t just throw everything back to every nation across the world, or at that rate, every cultural museum would become empty. They’ve been in Britain long enough and they rightfully belong there now.

  • @samsmith2635
    @samsmith2635 Год назад +1

    04:39 Completely skipped over Brasil which 10X as many slaves went than North America.

  • @arbaz79
    @arbaz79 Год назад +6

    Great documentary regarding looted art 👍.I hope one day all the looted art returns to their respective countries by the colonial powers.

  • @StaciBlu
    @StaciBlu Год назад +3

    I think everyone should return all art back to the countries of origin. If that country wants to sell the art to another country, that’s fine. We know better so we need to do better.

  • @elleyonaspg9580
    @elleyonaspg9580 Год назад +3

    Benin Bronzes, looted by the British, held in Germany, returned to Nigeria. What a convoluted web we weave!

  • @aisosaenab
    @aisosaenab Год назад +8

    As a Nigerian who is Edo or Bini living in the UK. I don’t agree with the African Americans saying that they want the Benin Bronzes especially when some of them might not even be from Nigeria and the Bronzes were made since the time Benin City was called Igodomigodo. So they should stop claiming things that they do not own.

  • @mrchoudhury6611
    @mrchoudhury6611 Год назад +18

    Good job Germany... Realise of historical Mistake is great ❤❤

  • @hinthegroove9740
    @hinthegroove9740 Год назад +22

    People around the world are being forced to do good deeds, pressure is good, change will come.

    • @Shamanicjourney7
      @Shamanicjourney7 Год назад

      Thank you

    • @user-so2nm4gz6u
      @user-so2nm4gz6u Год назад

      the aim to make people good. not force. because the people who says they are doing "good things" can also do bad things captured by ideology

    • @yommish
      @yommish Год назад

      @@user-so2nm4gz6u A society should discourage behavior that harms or infringes the rights and wellbeing of others. Every society has values and social pressures. It’s just “ideology” when you disagree with it. Is “killing people is bad” ideology? If someone has the urge to kill an innocent person but they are discouraged by societal norms, is that a bad thing because they were “captured by ideology?” The more people that have values like “colonial looting is bad” and exert social pressure to that effect, the better.

    • @user-so2nm4gz6u
      @user-so2nm4gz6u Год назад

      @@yommishi think you misinterpreted my point. by ideology i meant moving away from truth. in the name of 'doing good' or anything.
      saying 'this is for good' when the exact opposite is happening. by ideology i meant that.
      ideology is when individual(s) is captured by a set of ideas so much so that they dont care about truth anymore. their entire worldview is build upon those ideas and ideas related to it. that is what i meant by ideology.

  • @Ugotthis772
    @Ugotthis772 Год назад +9

    What bout kohinoor!??

    • @buddhadey167
      @buddhadey167 Год назад +5

      Kohinoor shouldnt be given to india

    • @kdas2000in
      @kdas2000in Год назад +2

      India should also return the loots done by chola empire to their original owners as well as compensate them.

    • @dancinglilies787
      @dancinglilies787 Год назад

      The Koh-i-Noor can't be returned because 1. Multiple countries are claiming ownership of it (India, Pakistan, Iran and Afganistan). 2. It is apart of the former Queen's crown now.
      I highly doubt it'll ever be returned.

  • @lolalopez9328
    @lolalopez9328 Год назад +4

    The Spanish took gold from the Aztecs, given to Isabel after she funded the expedition to discover America

  • @gbubemia
    @gbubemia Год назад +3

    This is a well made documentary.

  • @sn4rff
    @sn4rff Год назад +6

    i wouldn't have anticipated anyone being opposed to the re-patriation of looted artefacts - which just does to show that things can be much more complicated that they first appear. thanks for this documentary - it's given me plenty to think about.

    • @collinswuks3959
      @collinswuks3959 Год назад +1

      Don't just mind those busybodies African Americans. A true son of Africa won't only wish to have such artefacts back home but would encourage their kids and kins to from time to time have a rapprochement with their roots. Yet they prefer negativism and playing to the gallery.

  • @Jakabokbotch2nd
    @Jakabokbotch2nd Год назад +11

    Museum of London, Vatican City should give up their archive and return back all the artifacts stolen to the world

    • @cinnamonstar808
      @cinnamonstar808 Год назад

      Vatican city is the largest collector; thousands and thousand of books and writings. miles long.
      PEOPLE do not know Universities and college exist in the Americas before 1492 ; and those priest took many of the writings and 🔥burn the rest of the books.

    • @joexavier2287
      @joexavier2287 Год назад

      I think u failed to understand Vatican don't have collection of looted things,they largely posses collection of books and manuscripts

    • @antoniousai1989
      @antoniousai1989 Год назад +1

      You clearly never been to the Vatican, since most of the stuff there is produced in Italy. What they are going to give you back? The Sistine Chapel and Bramante's staircase?

    • @antoniousai1989
      @antoniousai1989 Год назад +1

      @@cinnamonstar808Like what books, ROFL? The Vatican archives are open to the public and digitalized. Please enlighten us on the books stolen? (if there are any)

    • @RD-zz6sx
      @RD-zz6sx Год назад +1

      European museums, or perhaps even "Western" museums are all at fault, we can only hope that they will all make better choices from now on.

  • @cartomancycarmen
    @cartomancycarmen Год назад +6

    That’s beautiful! I learned about how much art the Nazis stole and now it’s all being returned ❤

  • @litovillar6027
    @litovillar6027 Год назад +3

    Wow 🤩 I love DW❤❤❤

  • @dylanG6683
    @dylanG6683 Год назад +2

    I don't understand why these former colonial powers still refuse to return looted treasures, why is it hard to let go of statues that has no spiritual significance to Europeans😅. What a Shame

  • @sharonkaczorowski8690
    @sharonkaczorowski8690 Год назад +1

    I’ve often commented that my own country, the USA, is drenched in blood. The return of looted items, including ancestors (both ancient and much more recent) and sacred items back to First Peoples is in its early stages. And there are the peoples, like migrant workers, in unmarked graves throughout the South and Southwest. I loathe the argument that because a people exploited/oppressed others that it somehow justifies current/recent oppressors exploitation or oppression of others. It is the most specious kind of reasoning and devoid of all ethical content. Indigenous people all over the world have suffered…in part because their difference makes them dangerous to the status quo. Throughout recorded history, imperialists have always destroyed cultures which refuse to assimilate, going all the way back to Rome. The Nazis studied the reservation system in the US when developing the final solution, as did South Africa when developing Apartheid. It’s “modern” for oppressors study their own history. I’ve studied the history of the human drive to oppress most of my life. If schools taught a fraction of what I know, perhaps things would change. And yet I’m watching that content removed in some states.

  • @hhwippedcream
    @hhwippedcream Год назад +8

    Re exchange of cultural artifacts is an excellent opportunity to start conversations that move us towards re(m/p)atriation, then restitution.

  • @robertsmith1703
    @robertsmith1703 Год назад +12

    the problem with returning these ... will they simply be sold by the country or easily stolen?

    • @SithembisoNokula
      @SithembisoNokula Год назад +11

      its there stuff after all

    • @thebearszn
      @thebearszn Год назад +10

      That doesn't concern you.

    • @dolapokosebinu5274
      @dolapokosebinu5274 Год назад +6

      @robertsmith1703 It’s none of your business.
      It’s theirs to begin with.

    • @conniekabasharira7084
      @conniekabasharira7084 Год назад +5

      None of your business, not your property

    • @tony16991
      @tony16991 Год назад +7

      What the owner does with his stuff, doesn't concern the theif

  • @Ann-hm7gj
    @Ann-hm7gj Год назад +2

    Amazing

  • @nicolepaloms3509
    @nicolepaloms3509 Год назад +8

    I hope Europe returns all Africas looted diamonds.

    • @bullpup1337
      @bullpup1337 Год назад +6

      ok give us back all your computers and cellphones then, and cars and all other stuff you “looted” from europe

    • @Pleezath
      @Pleezath Год назад +1

      I hope not

    • @batrachian149
      @batrachian149 Год назад +2

      ​@@Pleezathcring

    • @batrachian149
      @batrachian149 Год назад +1

      ​@@bullpup1337cring

    • @nicolepaloms3509
      @nicolepaloms3509 Год назад +1

      @@bullpup1337 They were bought not looted through invasions. Now that’s the difference. Steve jobs was not white he was a Middle Eastern American man so please stop claiming his invention.

  • @amankumarsingh2862
    @amankumarsingh2862 Год назад +1

    Meanwhile Queen elizabeth: for Cullian and Koh-i-noor.....

  • @subhajyotibanerjee279
    @subhajyotibanerjee279 Год назад +7

    People are talking of marbles from Greece. Agreed those are also legitimate claims. But the sheer value of the wealth stolen from India holds the world record.
    So, India be looking at "Great" Britain like.. 😒

    • @breezeanonymous6034
      @breezeanonymous6034 Год назад +3

      give back our language English, our games like Cricket, Hockey, give back the country our ancestors created with their sweat and blood....you owe us trillions of pounds

    • @batrachian149
      @batrachian149 Год назад +6

      ​@@breezeanonymous6034cringe

    • @kdas2000in
      @kdas2000in Год назад +2

      India should also return the loots done by chola empire to their original owners as well as compensate them.

    • @tony16991
      @tony16991 Год назад

      @@kdas2000in Name them

  • @johan_johansson_
    @johan_johansson_ Год назад +6

    DW Documentary, vielen Dank wie immer 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

    • @jimmyjasi-
      @jimmyjasi- Год назад

      When Germans will return to Poland art they robed during Hitlers invasion?!

    • @johan_johansson_
      @johan_johansson_ Год назад

      ​@@jimmyjasi- may be among the further YT/TV episodes shot and given here by DW Documentary 🤔

    • @TheStockwell
      @TheStockwell Год назад

      ​@@jimmyjasi-When will YOU stop cutting-and-pasting this same tedious comment? 🧐

    • @DWDocumentary
      @DWDocumentary  Год назад +2

      Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.

    • @jimmyjasi-
      @jimmyjasi- Год назад

      @@DWDocumentary 😁

  • @aforadorable6006
    @aforadorable6006 Год назад +1

    Southeast Asian countries were looted too. Europe and the USA gained so much from this horrible thievery.

  • @moontreeboutique7995
    @moontreeboutique7995 Год назад

    OMG! So nice to see Dr. Tukufu Zuberi! His books are amazing and does anyone remember the PBS television program History Detectives?? so good!

  • @admonster11
    @admonster11 Год назад +1

    Germany still keeps stolen art from the holocaust

  • @boomshankar440-20
    @boomshankar440-20 Год назад +1

    oh DID YOU MEANT 80% of the British museum's inventory.????

  • @jessecockrum5273
    @jessecockrum5273 Год назад +2

    They just need to give back these peoples properties back dam it quit stealing these people identity

  • @s3v3n3
    @s3v3n3 Год назад +1

    A step in the right direction 👏 Unless a civilization is extinct, we don't need museums to display what their culture was like, read a book or find out yourself, my Lord🙄

  • @inuinu4205
    @inuinu4205 Год назад +1

    The British should return Indonesian tressure they took from the Yogyakarta royal palace

  • @doogalloonni
    @doogalloonni Год назад +5

    'time to return Nefertiti to Egypt...

  • @arcie3716
    @arcie3716 Год назад +2

    Lol love seeing everyone being critical of the British museum

  • @BrownieBeauty
    @BrownieBeauty Год назад +8

    I am descent of return African American slaves and l am Nigerian.Bronze need to be return .You can't prove your ancestors came from Benin kingdom or surrounding area ever if they did.Its not yours to decided .it's Nigerian culture heritage.You don't see Nigerians demanding African American banjo 🪕 because it's model of west African guitar 🎸.

    • @Ann-hm7gj
      @Ann-hm7gj Год назад

      Yes you can spirit is truth. It's in our dialect we don't realize it

  • @matthewkingsley8691
    @matthewkingsley8691 Год назад +2

    What a shame to them all , criminals, murderers,

  • @sergersgerhersh6594
    @sergersgerhersh6594 Год назад +2

    At least some countries are getting their artifacts back... Russia melted mine down for the gold and we'll never ever get them back.

  • @Joe-bn9fz
    @Joe-bn9fz Год назад +1

    Wonder when the british pirates will return Greece her cultural artefacts

  • @johnblackhorn
    @johnblackhorn Год назад +4

    Yeah, yeah it’s all nice but how about you Return the gold and all the silver art.

  • @dydia7129
    @dydia7129 Год назад +2

    Why keeping things that where not inspired by your ancestors? I can try to understand maybe there is nothing inspired by there ancestors on this earth.
    Why European are so amazed of anything that is not their?

  • @shahidanusrat6086
    @shahidanusrat6086 Год назад +4

    Excellent initiative, love this wonderful intiative from Pakistan 🙂

  • @HumminbirdMoth
    @HumminbirdMoth Год назад +22

    British Museum will be emptied.!!

    • @johan_johansson_
      @johan_johansson_ Год назад +2

      And this is again THE main question... This is really the terminal concern on the matter of this topic 🤝🏻

    • @ecocodex4431
      @ecocodex4431 Год назад

      If they made their living stealing other people's shit, then good riddance!

    • @MaryJohanna
      @MaryJohanna Год назад +7

      As it should be and countries should recognize the horror they brought to many of their colonies.

  • @luzobalbo4427
    @luzobalbo4427 Год назад +1

    We want the cullinan diamond on the king's head to be returned back to our homeland south Africa thanks.

  • @Rock-oj9my
    @Rock-oj9my Год назад +11

    Belgium must have a lot of valuables to give back DRC

    • @johan_johansson_
      @johan_johansson_ Год назад +1

      🥈🏵

    • @jacques.cousteau
      @jacques.cousteau Год назад +4

      A cargo of bananas is on his way to the DRC

    • @priorhen8105
      @priorhen8105 Год назад +1

      Don't worry a tyre and a few bananas are being sent to the Congo so don't lose any sleep over it all

    • @batrachian149
      @batrachian149 Год назад

      @@priorhen8105 cring

    • @batrachian149
      @batrachian149 Год назад

      @@jacques.cousteau cring

  • @finnskywalker2273
    @finnskywalker2273 Год назад +2

    Shoutout to investigative journalism podcast “Stuff the British Stole”.

  • @Marie-ys6yw
    @Marie-ys6yw Год назад +2

    It's hilarious to see Europeans/Americans seing accusing Russia for war in Ukraine WITHOUT sacrificing their own war crimes.

  • @alxces
    @alxces Год назад +2

    Do you think the Brits will ever return anything they have stolen?

  • @skepticalmaiden
    @skepticalmaiden Год назад +1

    Return the art to their respective countries, period.

  • @michaelwilcox5168
    @michaelwilcox5168 Год назад +1

    Was she holding that artifact in her bare hands. The disrespect continues.

  • @MrCyclist
    @MrCyclist Год назад +3

    Return all originals and make copies to be kept by the colonial powers.

    • @RD-zz6sx
      @RD-zz6sx Год назад

      Yes, I heard that the Rosetta stone is kept in Britain and that Britain gifted a copy to Egypt? Like why would they do that?

  • @Nike2030
    @Nike2030 Год назад +1

    Can we get the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece from the British museum!

  • @janklaas6885
    @janklaas6885 Год назад +1

    📍18:36