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Carregando... The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism (original: 2010; edição: 2011)de David Olusoga (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Nazism wasn't a 20th century aberration; its ideas and practices were tested in German SW Africa (Namibia) decades earlier. Genocide against the Hereros and Nama; the first death camps at Shark Island (Lüderitz) and Swakopmund; Hermann Göring's father was the first imperial commissioner; Hitler's Brown Shirts were so named because they wore schutztruppe surplus uniform; race scientists studied the remains of victims, etc., etc. As someone who loves and thought he knew Namibia, this is an eye-opener... sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
The unknown story of the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples in Germany's forgotten African Empire - an atrocity that foreshadowed the Nazi genocides forty years later. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This review is from: The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism (Paperback)
An extremely well-written account of an event of which I certainly was unaware - namely the appalling treatment of the native peoples of German S W Africa (now Namibia) in the early years of the 20th century. Based on the Kaiser's desire to create 'lebensraum' - space for the Aryan race to flourish, separate from the 'natives' - the German colonists created horrific concentration camps, notably that of Shark Island, near Luderitz.
But the author's don't confine themselves to relating African history; after explaining the German situation from WW1 to the disintegration of the country in its wake, and the rise of the Third Reich, they go on to draw parallels between the racial discrimination that was used to justify the treatment of natives in Africa, and that later used against Slavs and Jews.
"So much of what took place in German SW Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century horribly prefigures the events of the 1940s: concentration camps, the bureaucratisation of killing, meticulous record-keeping of death tolls and death rates, the use of work as a means of extermination, civilians transported in cattle trucks then worked to death, their remains experimented upon by race scientists, and the identification of ethnic groups who had a future of slaves and those who had no future of any sort."
A shocking book, yet written in a very readable style, and I learned so much, both about African and European history. ( )