From Windhoek to Auschwitz?
Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism
Abstract
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'.
Keywords
Holocaust; Auschwitz; Kolonialismus; Genozid; colonialism; genocideDOI
10.1515/9783110754513ISBN
9783110754513, 9783110754605, 9783110754209, 9783110754513Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Basel/Berlin/Boston, 2024Imprint
De Gruyter OldenbourgSeries
European Colonialism in Global Perspective, 1Classification
History
African history
History and Archaeology
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
National liberation and independence