From Windhoek to Auschwitz? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Windhoek to Auschwitz? write by Jürgen Zimmerer. This book was released on 2023-12-04. From Windhoek to Auschwitz? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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'.
From Windhoek to Auschwitz
From Windhoek to Auschwitz - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Windhoek to Auschwitz write by Jurgen Zimmerer. This book was released on 2015-02-28. From Windhoek to Auschwitz available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Forty years prior to the Holocaust, German colonial troops in German Southwest Africa (known today as Namibia) murdered up to 80000 Herero and 20000 Nama, and caused many more thousands to perish in the desert and as slave laborers in concentration camps. During the last decade, a fierce debate has emerged regarding the Herero and Nama genocide and its meaning within German 20th-century history, particularly the extent to which it can be seen as a precursor to Nazi crimes. This book examines the relationship between colonialism and the Holocaust, and situates Nazi crimes firmly within the global history of mass violence. Zimmerer documents the development of an argument that has changed the way we view the Holocaust by pointing to continuities and parallels, thereby offering a fresh, postcolonial perspective on the Third Reich.
From Windhoek to Auschwitz?
From Windhoek to Auschwitz? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Windhoek to Auschwitz? write by Jürgen Zimmerer. This book was released on 2023-10-13. From Windhoek to Auschwitz? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Jewish Imperial Imagination
The Jewish Imperial Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jewish Imperial Imagination write by Yaniv Feller. This book was released on 2023-09-30. The Jewish Imperial Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leo Baeck (1873–1956) was a famous Jewish thinker and the leader of German Jewry during the Holocaust. This book offers the first interpretation of his religious thought as political, showing how Baeck, along with German-Jewish thought more broadly, cannot be properly understood without the imperial context.
Massacres and Morality
Massacres and Morality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Massacres and Morality write by Alex J. Bellamy. This book was released on 2012-09-27. Massacres and Morality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most cultural and legal codes agree that the intentional killing of civilians, whether in peacetime or war, is prohibited. This is the norm of civilian immunity, widely considered to be a fundamental moral and legal principle. Yet despite this fact, the deliberate killing of large numbers of civilians remains a persistent feature of global political life. What is more, the perpetrators have often avoided criticism and punishment. Examining dozens of episodes of mass killing perpetrated by states since the French Revolution late eighteenth century, this book attempts to explain this paradox. It studies the role that civilian immunity has played in shaping the behaviour of perpetrators and how international society has responded to mass killing. The book argues that although the world has made impressive progress in legislating against the intentional killing of civilians and in constructing institutions to give meaning to that prohibition, the norm's history in practice suggests that the ascendancy of civilian immunity is both more recent and more fragile than might otherwise be thought. In practice, decisions to violate a norm are shaped by factors relating to the norm and the situation at hand, so too is the manner in which international society and individual states respond to norm violations. Responses to norm violations are not simply matters of normative obligation or calculations of self-interest but are instead guided by a combination of these logics as well as perceptions about the situation at hand, existing relations with the actors involved, and power relations between actors holding different accounts of the situation. Thus, whilst civilian immunity has for the time being prevailed over 'anti-civilian ideologies' which seek to justify mass killing, it remains challenged by these ideologies and its implementation shaped by individual circumstances. As a result, whilst it has become much more difficult for states to get away with mass murder, it is still not entirely impossible for them to do so.
