TO WHAT EXTENT WAS THE HOLOCAUST INFLUENCED BY COLONIALISM?
CASE STUDIES FOR GERMANY:
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN TURKEY
HERERO AND NAMA (NAMIBIA) IN GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA
EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE FOR OTHERS:
BELGIAN CONGO FREE STATE
ABYSSINIA RE ITALY
BOER
ALGERIA FRANCE
General research table:
Wikipedia herero and nama:
Mahmood Mamdani argues that the links between the Herero genocide and the Holocaust are beyond the execution of an
annihilation policy and the establishment of concentration camps and there are also ideological similarities in the conduct of
both genocides – Social Darwinist notion of cleaning where something new would emerge
AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE EXPLAIN MISC
Wikipedia Historian Jeremy-Sarkin Hughes believes
that regardless of whether or not a written
herero and order was given, the Kaiser had given Trotha
nama verbal orders
Racial struggle
Shark island concentration camp/death Infecting Germany with dna but they still raped
island them before killing
Benjamin Madley argues that although
Shark Island is referred to as a concentration
camp, it functioned as an extermination
camp or death camp
Benjamin Madley – crucial precursor to
holocaust - ersonal connections, literature,
and public debates served as conduits for
communicating colonialist and genocidal
ideas and methods from the colony to
Germany
Tony Barta – inspiration for Hitler
Clarence Lusane, Eugen Fischer's medical
experiments can be seen as a testing
ground for medical procedures which were
later followed during the Nazi Holocaust.
Mahmood Mamdani argues that the links
between the Herero genocide and the
Holocaust are beyond the execution of an
annihilation policy and the establishment of
CASE STUDIES FOR GERMANY:
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN TURKEY
HERERO AND NAMA (NAMIBIA) IN GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA
EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE FOR OTHERS:
BELGIAN CONGO FREE STATE
ABYSSINIA RE ITALY
BOER
ALGERIA FRANCE
General research table:
Wikipedia herero and nama:
Mahmood Mamdani argues that the links between the Herero genocide and the Holocaust are beyond the execution of an
annihilation policy and the establishment of concentration camps and there are also ideological similarities in the conduct of
both genocides – Social Darwinist notion of cleaning where something new would emerge
AUTHOR QUOTE PAGE EXPLAIN MISC
Wikipedia Historian Jeremy-Sarkin Hughes believes
that regardless of whether or not a written
herero and order was given, the Kaiser had given Trotha
nama verbal orders
Racial struggle
Shark island concentration camp/death Infecting Germany with dna but they still raped
island them before killing
Benjamin Madley argues that although
Shark Island is referred to as a concentration
camp, it functioned as an extermination
camp or death camp
Benjamin Madley – crucial precursor to
holocaust - ersonal connections, literature,
and public debates served as conduits for
communicating colonialist and genocidal
ideas and methods from the colony to
Germany
Tony Barta – inspiration for Hitler
Clarence Lusane, Eugen Fischer's medical
experiments can be seen as a testing
ground for medical procedures which were
later followed during the Nazi Holocaust.
Mahmood Mamdani argues that the links
between the Herero genocide and the
Holocaust are beyond the execution of an
annihilation policy and the establishment of
