German Colonialism - Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-14973-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

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 of racial difference and superiority at home, building upon a nascent nationalism that blossomed into National Socialism and the Holocaust. Others remain skeptical and challenge the continuity thesis. The contributors also examine Germany's colonial past with debates over the country's identity and history and compare its colonial crimes with other European ventures. Other issues explored include the denial or marginalization of German genocide and the place of colonialism and the Holocaust within German and Israeli postwar relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Langbehn, Volker

Salama, Mohammad

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Reconfiguring German Colonialism, by Volker Langbehn and Mohammad SalamaPart I. Colonial (Dis)Continuities: Framing the Issue 1. Borrowed Light: Nietzsche and the Colonies, by Timothy Brennan2. German Colonialism: Some Reflections on Reassessments, Specificities, and Constellations, by Birthe KundrusPart II. Lebensraum and Genocide 3. Against "Human Diversity as Such": Lebensraum and Genocide in the Third Reich, by Shelley Baranowski4. Hannah Arendt, Imperialisms, and the Holocaust, by A. Dirk Moses5. Caesura, Continuity, and Myth: The Stakes of Tethering the Holocaust to German Colonial Theory, by Kitty MilletPart III. Looking East: Poland, the Ottoman Empire, and Politicized Jihadism 6. Germany's Adventures in the Orient: A History of Ambivalent Semicolonial Entanglements, by Malte Fuhrmann7. Arguing the Case for a Colonial Poland, by Kristin Kopp8. Colonialism, and No End: The Other Continuity Theses, by Russell A. BermanPart IV. Of Missionaries, Economics, and Intranational Self-Perception 9. The Purpose of German Colonialism, or, the Long Shadow of Bismarck's Colonial Policy, by Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann10. Christian Missionary Societies in the German Colonies, 1884/85-1914/15, by Ulrich van der Heyden11. German Colonialism and the British Neighbor in Africa Before 1914: Self-Definitions, Lines of Demarcation, and Cooperation, by Ulrike Lindner Part V. Postcolonial German Politics 12. "Kalashnikovs, Not Coca-Cola, Bring Self-Determination to Angola": The Two Germanys, Lusophone Africa, and the Rhetoric of Colonial Difference, by Luís Madureira13. Germany, Palestine, Israel, and the (Post)Colonial Imagination, by Martin Braach-Maksvytis List of ContributorsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Volker Langbehn teaches German in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State University and is the editor of German Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory.

Mohammad Salama teaches Arabic in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State University and is the author of Islam, Orientalism, and Intellectual History: Modernity and the Politics of Exclusion Since Ibn Khaldun.