{"id":39415,"date":"2024-01-31T18:48:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=39415"},"modified":"2024-01-31T18:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:48:04","slug":"jurgen-zimmerer-from-windhoek-to-auschwitz-reflections-on-the-relationship-between-colonialism-and-national-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=39415","title":{"rendered":"J\u00fcrgen Zimmerer, \u201eFrom Windhoek to Auschwitz? Reflections on the Relationship between Colonialism and National Socialism\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Volume 1 in the series <strong>European Colonialism in Global Perspective<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <em>From Windhoek to Auschwitz?<\/em> interrogates the relationship between colonialism and National Socialism, using genocide, the &#8216;racial state&#8217;, 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 &#8216;Third Reich&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/9783110754513\/html\">https:\/\/www.degruyter.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/9783110754513\/html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Open Access<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-knjige","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Zimmerer.jpg?fit=800%2C1189&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55016,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55016","url_meta":{"origin":39415,"position":0},"title":"S\u00e9bastien Ledoux, \u201eThe Duty of Memory: Changing Language in the Era of Memory, 1970 \u2013 2010\u201c","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"19. kolovoza 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Within France, the expression \u201cduty of memory\u201d (devoir de m\u00e9moire)\u00a0speaks to a complex and ever-evolving relationship with the past. 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