Colonialism and the Holocaust: Towards an Archaeology of Genocide

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Glossary XIII
4. Preface to the English Edition XV
5. In Lieu of an Introduction
6. National Socialism from a Postcolonial Perspective: A Plea for the Globalisation of the History of German Mass Violence 1
7. The War of Annihilation, the Racist Utopia and the Obsessive Delusion of Planning
8. The First Genocide of the Twentieth Century: The German War of Annihilation in South West Africa (1904–1908) and the Global History of Genocide 29
9. Planning Frenzy: Forced Labour, Expulsion and Genocide as Elements of Population Economics in German South West Africa 57
10. Total Control? Law and Administration in German South West Africa 77
11. Germany’s Racial State in Africa: Order, Development and Segregation in German South West Africa (1884–1915) 104
12. The Herero and Nama War (1904–1908) in Global History
13. Colonialism and the Holocaust: Towards an Archaeology of Genocide 125
14. The German Empire and Genocide: The Genocide Against the Herero and Nama in (German) History 154
15. Colonial Genocide? On the Use and Abuse of a Historical Category for Global History 175
16. From Germany’s First Colonial Empire to Its Second
17. From Windhoek to Warsaw: The Society of Racial Privilege in German South West Africa – a Model with a Future? 201
18. The Birth of the Ostland out of the Spirit of Colonialism: A (Post-)colonial Perspective on the Nazi Policy of Conquest and Annihilation 230
19. In the Service of the Empire: Berlin University’s Geographers from Colonial Sciences to Ostforschung 262
20. Mass Violence: A German Sonderweg?
21. No German Sonderweg in ‘Race Warfare’: The Genocide against the Herero and Nama (1904–1908) 297
22. Archive Sources Referenced 317
23. Bibliography 319
24. Index 341