German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence /

German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence / / Susanne Kuss.

Some historians have traced a line from Germany's atrocities in its colonial wars to those committed by the Nazis during WWII. Susanne Kuss dismantles these claims, rejecting the notion that a distinctive military ethos or policy of genocide guided Germany's conduct of operations in Africa...

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Kuss, Susanne,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.) :; 3 maps, 1 graph, 5 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Boxer War
  • 2. The Herero and Nama War
  • 3. The Maji Maji War
  • 4. The Motivation of White and Native Colonial Soldiers
  • 5. Training and Weaponry
  • 6. Ideology and Passage to War
  • 7. Environment and Enemy
  • 8. Diseases and Injuries
  • 9. Reaction from the Foreign Powers
  • 10. Parliament and the Military Press
  • 11. The Military
  • 12. Veterans' Associations
  • 13. Legacy
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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