The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich

by Elizabeth R. Baer

Book Overview

Examines literature and art to reveal the German genocidal gaze in Africa and the Holocaust.

The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904-1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated thousands of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The perception of Africans as subhuman--lacking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814343856
• ISBN13: 9780814343852
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"