Genocidal empires : : German colonialism in Africa and the Third Reich /

Genocidal empires : : German colonialism in Africa and the Third Reich / / Klaus Bachmann.

Between 1904 and 1907, German soldiers, settlers and mercenaries committed mass murder in Africa. Can this be considered the first genocide of the 20th century? Was it a forecast of the Third Reich’s extermination policy in Central and Eastern Europe? This book provides the answer. Based on extensiv...

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Superior document:Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik ; Band 21 = Studies in history, memory and politics ; Volume 21
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Bachmann, Klaus, 1963-
Place / Publishing House:Berlin : : Peter Lang,, [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik ; Band 21.
Physical Description:1 online resource (386 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: German South-West Africa 1904-1907-the exception to German colonial rule
  • The genocide that did not take place
  • The causes of war
  • The policy shift in 1904
  • The genocide that did take place
  • The war against the Nama
  • The camps
  • The deportations
  • The consequences of Germany's colonial policy in Namibia
  • Germany's colonial policy in the light of international criminal law
  • The evolution of the genocide concept in international criminal law
  • Genocide without genocidal intent?
  • Was quelling the Herero uprising genocide?
  • Destroying the Herero and Nama as ethnic groups
  • The responsibility of superiors and peers
  • How ICL sheds new light on other cases of extreme colonial violence in the German empire
  • Genocide in German East Africa?
  • The case of the Bushmen
  • From Africa to Auschwitz, from Windhuk to the Holocaust?
  • Institutional continuity between the Kaiserreich's colonial bureaucracy and the Third Reich
  • Continuity of informal knowledge
  • Elite continuity between German South-West Africa and the Third Reich
  • From Berlin to Cape Town and Windhoek
  • The Auslandsorganisation Der NSDAP
  • The failure of the Auslandsorganisation in South-West Africa
  • Higher stakes: South Africa
  • Operation weissdorn
  • Patterns of extreme violence in the German colonies and German-occupied central and eastern Europe
  • An early version of apartheid?

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