Research Catalog

Title

Genocide in German South-West Africa : the Colonial War (1904-1908) in Namibia and its aftermath / edited by Jürgen Zimmerer & Joachim Zeller ; translated from the German by Edward Neather.

Publication

Monmouth, Wales : Merlin Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Zimmerer, Jürgen
• Zeller, Joachim

Description

xxxvi, 291p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

"In 1904, the harsh rule of the German colonial administration provoked an uprising in South-West Africa (now Namibia). German forces suppressed it with great brutality and set about the systematic annihilation of the Herero and Nama people." "This collection of essays, richly illustrated by numerous contemporary photographs and cartoons, considers many aspects of this war of extermination, and suggests how racism, concentration camps and genocide in the German colony anticipated crimes later committed by the Nazis." "Edward Neather adds an introduction that considers the wider context of German colonial history. He considers why, until the late nineteenth century, Germany had no colonial interests which could compare with the examples of Britain, Spain, and France and relates the war in German South Africa to other aspects of the short history of German colonialism, (1894 to 1918)." --Book Jacket.

Uniform Title

Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika. English.

Subject

• 1884-1915
• Herero (African people) > History
• Namibia > History > Herero Revolt, 1904-1907
• Namibia > Colonization

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "First published in 2003 by Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Namibian on the path to colonization. The golden age of the pastoralists: Namibia in the 19th century / Gesine Krüger -- The model colony? Racial segregation, forced labour and total control in German South-West Africa / Jürgen Zimmerer -- The Colonial War 1904-1908. War, concentration camps and genocide in South-West Africa: the first German genocide / Jürgen Zimmerer -- 'Ombepera i koza - the cold is killing me': a history of the concentration camp in Swakopmund (1904-1908) / Joachim Zeller -- Forced labour in the concentration camp on Shark Island / Casper W. Erichsen -- 'The drama was played out on the dark stage of the sandveldt': the destruction of Herero and Nama in German (popular) literature / Medardus Brehl -- The 'Hottentot election' of 1907 / Ulrich van der Heyden -- Misery, resistance and a new beginning: the African perspective. Colonisation, genocide and resurgence: the Herero of Namibia 1890-1923 / Jan-Bart Gewald -- The Nama and the war in the south / Werner Hillebrecht -- At the margins of the war: the Ovambo kingdom of Ondonga / Dominik J. Schaller -- Beasts and victims: women in the Colonial War / Gesine Krüger -- Wartime wedding: the experiences of Kaera Ida Getzen-Leinhos / Dag Henrichsen -- Remembering and forgetting. The funeral of Samuel Maharero and the reorganisation of the Herero / Jan-Bart Gewald -- 'A luta continua': strategic orientation and the politics of remembrance as exemplified in the Witbooi 'Heroes Day' in Gibeon / Reinhart Kößler -- Symbolic politics: notes on the German colonial culture of remembrance / Joachim Zeller -- The German cemetery at the Waterberg / Lariss Förster -- 'We never spoke about reparations': German-Namibian relationships: suppression or reconciliation? / Henning Melber -- Namibia: a german 'Sonderweg' in Africa? Remarks on the international discussion / Andreas Eckert.

ISBN

• 9780850365733 (hardback)
• 0850365732 (hardback)
• 9780850365740 (pbk.)
• 0850365740 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 232148854
• SCSB-11157199

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library