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.
The Kaiser's Holocaust passionately narrates this harrowing story and explores one of the defining episodes of the twentieth century from a new angle. Moving, powerful and unforgettable, it is a story that needs to be told.
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Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism
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Germany's Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Maps
- Introduction: Cell 5
- 1: The World behind the Fog
- 2: The Iron Chancellor and the Guano King
- 3: ‘This Is My Land’
- 4: Soldier of Darkness
- 5: ‘European Nations Do Not Make War in That Way’
- 6: ‘A Piece of Natural Savagery’
- 7: King of the Huns
- 8: ‘Rivers of Blood and Money’
- 9: ‘Death through Exhaustion’
- 10: ‘Peace Will Spell Death for Me and My Nation’
- 11: ‘You Yourselves Carry the Blame for Your Misery’
- 12: The Island of Death
- 13: ‘Our New Germany on African Soil’
- 14: Things Fall Apart
- 15: ‘To Fight the World for Ever’
- 16: A Passing Corporal
- 17: A People without Space
- 18: Germany’s California
- Epilogue: The Triumph of Amnesia
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- Copyright
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