The "Tanzania Park" is a good example of how difficult it is for Hamburg to come to terms with its colonial past. The "German East Africa War Memorial" (incorrectly called the "Askari Reliefs") and the "Schutztruppen Memorial of Honor", in the immediate vicinity of the site of the former Lettow-Vorbeck barracks with seven colonial portrait reliefs on the building facades, are protected as monuments and enclosed behind a fence in Hamburg-Jenfeld. The two reliefs erected during the Nazi era, which once flanked the barracks entrance, pay tribute to Germany's colonial past and propagate the alleged "loyalty of the Askari". The word "Askari" referred to African mercenaries in the German "Schutztruppe", in this case in the colony of "Deutsch-Ostafrika". The myth of General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, who is glorified here as an undefeated colonial war hero, is closely linked to this. The memorial ensemble was torn apart without permission in 2003 and erected in the newly created "Tanzania Park". After two decades of ongoing debate about Hamburg's handling of its colonial past and despite massive criticism, they still stand, unbroken in their problematic imagery, close to their original location.