If the wealth and exploitation of the colonies made the rise of Prussia possible, doesn’t a portion of Prussia belong to the colonies? Doesn’t Germany’s wealth also belong to the so-called guest workers, since they helped rebuild Germany after the Second World War? Doesn’t German culture also belong to Black, Jewish, Muslim, Sinti and Roma, and queer people since they played a significant role in shaping its culture?

A plural-democratic narrative, to reference back to Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, underlines the fact that the German present has also been significantly shaped by marginalized and threatened groups. In a series of talks entitled Who Does Germany Belong To?, many of those who were marginalized through the last century address how these groups of people also developed what ultimately became the German culture of remembrance that German society rightly boasts today.