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The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of
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The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism Hardcover - 2010

by David Olusoga; Casper W. Erichsen

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On 12 May 1883, the German flag was raised on the coast of South-West Africa, modern Namibia - the beginnings of Germany's African Empire. As colonial forces moved in, their ruthless punitive raids became an open war of extermination. Thousands of the indigenous people were killed or driven out into the desert to die. By 1905, the survivors were interned in concentration camps, and systematically starved and worked to death. Years later, the people and ideas that drove the ethnic cleansing of German South West Africa would influence the formation of the Nazi party. The Kaiser's Holocaust uncovers extraordinary links between the two regimes: their ideologies, personnel, even symbols and uniform. The Herero and Nama genocide was deliberately concealed for almost a century. Today, as the graves of the victims are uncovered, its re-emergence challenges the belief that Nazism was an aberration in European history.

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  • Title The Kaiser's Holocaust: Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism
  • Author David Olusoga; Casper W. Erichsen
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 394
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Faber & Faber, London
  • Date 2010
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780571231416 / 0571231411
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.6 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 4.06 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects National socialism, Germany - Colonies - Africa - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010533096
  • Dewey Decimal Code 304.663

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