Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Killing

Michelle Gordon; Rachel O´Sullivan

doi:10.5771/9783835348776

Summary

European Holocaust Studies (EHS) publishes key international research results on the murder of the European Jews and its wider contexts.

In recent years, scholars have rediscovered Hannah Arendt`s »boomerang thesis« – the »coming home« of European colonialism as genocide on European soil – as well as Raphael Lemkin`s work around his definition of genocide and the importance of its colonial dimensions. Germany and other European states are increasingly engaging in debates on comparing the Holocaust to other genocides and cases of mass killing, memorialization, »decolonization« and attempts to come to terms with the past (»Vergangenheitsbewältigung«).

Includes

Dorota Glowacka: »The Vanished World«: Cultural Genocide of Eastern European Jews through the Lens of Settler Colonial Studies

Carroll P. Kakel: »One should take America as a model«: How Hitler Used American Westering as Legitimation

for the Nazi Lebensraum Empire

Jack Palmer: Genocide, Occupation, Extinction: A Conceptual Constellation in the Thought of Raphael Lemkin

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8353-5203-2
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8353-4877-6
Publisher: Wallstein, Göttingen
Language: English
Pages: 303
Product type: Edited Book

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 6
1. Introduction: Colonial Paradigms of Violence No access Pages 9 - 30
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2. A “Vanished World”: Cultural Genocide of Eastern European Jews through the Lens of Settler Colonialism No access Pages 31 - 60
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3. Genocide, Occupation, Extinction: A Conceptual Constellation in the Thought of Raphael Lemkin No access Pages 61 - 82
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4. Disease Control and Human Experimentation: Networks, Practices, and Biographical Pathways from Colonial Medicine to Nazi Germany No access Pages 83 - 114
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5. Colonial Warfare and Mass Murder in the Spanish Civil War: From the Rif to Badajoz? No access Pages 115 - 136
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6. “One Should Take America as a Model”: How Adolf Hitler Used American Westering as Model and Legitimation for the Nazi Lebensraum Empire No access Pages 137 - 160
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7. Zamość Experiments: SS Settler Colonialism and Violence in Eastern Poland No access Pages 161 - 184
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8. Terra Incognita? Othering East-Central Europe in Holocaust Studies No access Pages 185 - 214
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1. A European Vergangenheitsbewältigung? New Entanglements of Holocaust and Colonial Histories No access
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1. “Hard Work was Part of the Act”: Charlotte Kahane’s Memoir ‚In the Safety of the Third Reich‘ No access
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1. Geschichte der Ihnestraße 22: Remembering the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics No access Pages 255 - 264
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2. Ottoman Jews in Paris: Immigrant Belonging in Interwar and Occupied France, 1918–1945 No access Pages 265 - 272
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3. The Colonial Way of War: Extreme Violence in Knowledge and Practice of Colonial Warfare in the British, German, and Dutch Colonial Empires, c. 1890–1914 No access Pages 273 - 278
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4. Jewish Deportees in Mauritius (1940–1945): A History from the Margins No access Pages 279 - 288
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5. Intersections of Racism and Antisemitism in Postcolonial and Post-National Socialist Germany No access Pages 289 - 294
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About the Authors No access Pages 295 - 303