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 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'.

Info autore

Jürgen Zimmerer
, Universität Hamburg, Germany.

Riassunto

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'.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jürgen Zimmerer
• Editore: Oldenbourg
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9783112213957
• ISBN: 978-3-11-221395-7
• Pagine: 342
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 22 mm x 230 mm
• Peso: 543 g
• Serie: European Colonialism in Global Perspective
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; Verstehen, Auschwitz, History, Geschichte und Archäologie, Holocaust, Kolonialismus, Genozid, Genocide, auseinandersetzen, Colonialism, HIS000000 HISTORY / General, HIS037070 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HIS001000 HISTORY / Africa / General