Genocidal empires German colonialism in Africa and the Third Reich
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bern
Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group
2018
Berlin : [2018] |
| Colección: | Geschichte, Erinnerung, Politik ;
Band 21. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009689912606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?
