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Berlin's Charite to Repatriate Aboriginal Australian Skulls

Officials at Charite's Medical History Museum said they are unsure how the human remains made it into their anthropological collection, but added they would work with Australian scientists to determine where the skulls will be sent from Berlin.

Ian Kemish, Australia's ambassador to Germany, said Thursday, Nov. 14, that the move comes from "an impulse for reconciliation."

Apart from scant notes made over a century ago in the museum's archives and on the skulls themselves, little is know about the remains.

"We welcome the initiative for an appropriate return and contribution to a respectful reconciliation with Australia," Charite hospital chairman Karl Max Einhaeupl said in a statement.

The collection is among a dozen in Germany and many more in Europe. Australian diplomats have asked curators to repatriate Aboriginal remains.



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