Vortrag: "Schokolonialismus und andere Ausbeutungsformen in der Kakaoindustrie"

In the organizer's words:

The THFxGeschichte event series at Tempelhof Airport is entering the next round. On October 29, the panel discussion on "Chocolonialism and other forms of exploitation in the cocoa industry yesterday and today" will take place.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Tempelhof district of Berlin was known as the "chocolate district". This was mainly due to the production facilities of the Sarotti company. From 1913, the large Sarotti factory was located in Teilestraße, south of Tempelhof Field and the later airport. The factory was soon decried by workers as "gray misery", and many contemporaries saw it as an expression of the capitalist exploitation of the workers employed there. The workers in the colonies also had to harvest raw cocoa under exploitative conditions.

In this historical themed evening, we look with our guests at the long history of the cocoa and chocolate industry and its various forms of exploitation. We look at the conditions of the workforce in the German Reich and the colonies. We will also talk about forced labor in Tempelhof factories during the Nazi era and discuss why chocolate is not just a sweet treat to this day, but is often still associated with questionable working conditions.

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Chocolonialism and other forms of exploitation in the cocoa industry

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Free admission, registration required