This short story (full text here) can be read as an allegory for colonialism as a whole. The German title is “Shooting an Elephant” and is published in the following volume: Meistererzählungen von George Orwell, Gebundene Ausgabe (11th edition), Diogenes Verlag (2003).
George Orwell 1936: Shooting an Elephant. In: New Writing No. 2
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