The University of Cologne is pursuing the aforementioned investigations with due scientific care and thoroughness. If there are clear findings, it also takes appropriate measures, such as the reinstatement in 2005 of academic degrees that had been unlawfully revoked during the Nazi era. Important results of previous investigations are summarized in a separate chapter of the recently published chronicle of the University of Cologne. Initial results of the ongoing investigations were presented to the public and made available last year. The University of Cologne has also been focusing on colonial history and its aftermath, which has increasingly come to the attention of the public in recent years. [...]Research critical of colonialism has been an integral part of the University of Cologne for many years. This has already resulted in numerous groundbreaking works, also on the handling of sensitive collection objects as well as on the history of colonial research in connection with the University of Cologne, its predecessors and its cooperation with municipal institutions. Recently, this commitment to the question of the restitution of colonial objects has become particularly visible through several research projects, lectures and a large international conference, which was led by the University of Cologne and organized in cooperation with the German Foreign Office. The debate about the Robert Koch Institute's colonial experiments with arsenic-containing medicines to combat sleeping sickness in 1906, which intensified during the course of the year and have been known for some time, is being closely followed by the university administration.
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