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Genocidal empires : German colonialism in Africa and the Third Reich / Klaus Bachmann.
Author
Bachmann, Klaus, 1963-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2018
Berlin : Peter Lang, [2018]
©2018
Description
1 online resource (386 pages).
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Subject(s)
Genocide
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Namibia
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Genocide
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German East Africa
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Namibia
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History
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1884-1915
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German East Africa
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History
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Germany
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Colonies
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Africa
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Race relations
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Germany
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Politics and government
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1933-1945
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Series
Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik ; Band 21.
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Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik ; Band 21 = Studies in history, memory and politics ; Volume 21
Summary note
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 extensive archival and library research in Tanzania, Namibia, South Africa, Germany and Poland as well as on the most recent and up-to-date jurisprudence of international criminal tribunals, the renowned historian and political scientist Klaus Bachmann paints a new and surprising picture of the events and their legal significance, which many will find disturbing and provocative. It abolishes many well-established interpretations about German colonialism and its alleged links with the Third Reich and provides a new and intriguing contribution to the current post-colonial debate.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Language note
English
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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ISBN
3-631-75278-4
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https://doi.org/10.3726/b13834
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