German colonialism : race, the Holocaust, and postwar Germany
More than half a century before the mass executions of the Holocaust, Germany devastated the peoples of southwestern Africa. While colonialism might seem marginal to German history, new scholarship compares these acts to Nazi practices on the Eastern and Western fronts. With some of the most important essays from the past five years exploring the ""continuity thesis, "" this anthology debates the links between German colonialist activities and the behavior of Germany during World War II. Some contributors argue the country's domination of southwestern Africa gave rise to perceptions o
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Introduction: Reconfiguring German colonialism / Volker Langbehn and Mohammad Salama
pt. 1. Colonial (dis)continuities : framing the issue
Borrowed light : Nietzsche and the colonies / Timothy Brennan
German colonialism : some reflections on reassessments, specificities, and constellations / Birthe Kundrus
pt. 2. Lebensraum and genocide
Against "human diversity as such" : Lebensraum and genocide in the Third Reich / Shelley Baranowski
Hannah Arendt, imperialisms, and the Holocaust / A. Dirk Moses
Caesura, continuity, and myth : the stakes of tethering the Holocaust to German colonial theory / Kitty Millet
pt. 3. Looking East : Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and politicized Jihadism
Germany's adventures in the Orient : a history of ambivalent semicolonial entanglements / Malte Fuhrmann
Arguing the case for a colonial Poland / Kristin Kopp
Colonialism, and no end : the other continuity theses / Russell A. Berman
pt. 4. Of Missionaries, Economics, and Intranational Self-Perception
The purpose of German colonialism, or, The long shadow of Bismarck's colonial policy / Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann
Christian missionary societies in the German colonies, 1884/85-1914/15 / Ulrich van der Heyden
German colonialism and the British neighbor in Africa before 1914 : self-definitions, lines of demarcation, and cooperation / Ulrike Lindner
pt. 5. Postcolonial German politics
"Kalashnikovs, not Coca-Cola, bring self-determination to Angola" : the two Germanys, Lusophone Africa, and the rhetoric of colonial difference / Luis Madureira
Germany, Palestine, Israel, and the (post)colonial imagination / Martin Braach-Maksvytis
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