Society

A Place Called Wahala

Author/Director Jürgen Ellinghaus
Producer Jürgen Ellinghaus
Country France, Togo, Germany
Length 56'
Year 2021

Every year the War Cemetery Memorial of Wahala in Togo hosts the 11th November Remembrance Day Ceremony which recalls the end of World War I. The first German surrender of WWI was signed on the soil of the Reich's Togoland colony in August 1914, subsequently to the battle of Chra. It marked de facto the end of German "Togoland". But Wahala's history and its very name do evoke an otherwise painful past...


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