German Colonialism: Race, the Holocaust, and Postwar Germany

by Mohammad Salama and Volker Langbehn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231149735
• ISBN13: 9780231149730
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher