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From Windhoek to Auschwitz?
Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism
- Jürgen Zimmerer
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Published/Copyright:2024
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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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Jürgen Zimmerer, Universität Hamburg, Germany.
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Contents
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Glossary
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Preface to the English Edition
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National Socialism from a Postcolonial Perspective: A Plea for the Globalisation of the History of German Mass Violence
1 - The War of Annihilation, the Racist Utopia and the Obsessive Delusion of Planning
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The First Genocide of the Twentieth Century: The German War of Annihilation in South West Africa (1904–1908) and the Global History of Genocide
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Planning Frenzy: Forced Labour, Expulsion and Genocide as Elements of Population Economics in German South West Africa
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Total Control? Law and Administration in German South West Africa
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Germany’s Racial State in Africa: Order, Development and Segregation in German South West Africa (1884–1915)
104 - The Herero and Nama War (1904–1908) in Global History
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Colonialism and the Holocaust: Towards an Archaeology of Genocide
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The German Empire and Genocide: The Genocide Against the Herero and Nama in (German) History
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Colonial Genocide? On the Use and Abuse of a Historical Category for Global History
175 - From Germany’s First Colonial Empire to Its Second
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From Windhoek to Warsaw: The Society of Racial Privilege in German South West Africa – a Model with a Future?
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The Birth of the Ostland out of the Spirit of Colonialism: A (Post-)colonial Perspective on the Nazi Policy of Conquest and Annihilation
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In the Service of the Empire: Berlin University’s Geographers from Colonial Sciences to Ostforschung
262 - Mass Violence: A German Sonderweg?
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No German Sonderweg in ‘Race Warfare’: The Genocide against the Herero and Nama (1904–1908)
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Archive Sources Referenced
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Bibliography
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Index
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December 4, 2023
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December 4, 2023
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June 30, 2025
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9783112213957
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342
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Historians of Genocide/Holocaust studies, (post-)colonialism, 20th century Germany/Africa, students, librarians, public
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