From Windhoek to Auschwitz? Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism
Forty years before the war of annihilation in eastern Europe and the Holocaust, German colonial troops in German South West Africa perpetrated the first genocide of the twentieth century. From Windhoek to Auschwitz? interrogates the relationship between colonialism and National Socialism, using geno...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2024
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Series: | European Colonialism in Global Perspective
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Collection: | Directory of Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | Forty years before the war of annihilation in eastern Europe and the Holocaust, German colonial troops in German South West Africa perpetrated the first genocide of the twentieth century. From Windhoek to Auschwitz? interrogates the relationship between colonialism and National Socialism, using genocide, the 'racial state', and systems of forced labour as points of departure for comparative observation. The book is an indispensable document in the intensive debate among German and international scholars about the postcolonial expansion of German history, and it offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and also the 'Third Reich'.; Forty years before the war of annihilation in eastern Europe and the Holocaust, German colonial troops in German South West Africa perpetrated the first genocide of the twentieth century. From Windhoek to Auschwitz? interrogates the relationship between colonialism and National Socialism, using genocide, the 'racial state', and systems of forced labour as points of departure for comparative observation. The book is an indispensable document in the intensive debate among German and international scholars about the postcolonial expansion of German history, and it offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and also the 'Third Reich'. |
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Item Description: | Creative Commons (cc), by/4.0, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (366 p.) |
ISBN: | 9783110754513 9783110754605 9783110754209 |