Author : Raffael Scheck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 2006-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521857994
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Author : Mahon Murphy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1108418074
This new analysis of internment outside Europe helps us to understand the First World War as a truly global conflict.
Author : Jonas Kreienbaum
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 32,92 MB
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1789203279
Only in recent years has the history of European colonial concentration camps in Africa—in which thousands of prisoners died in appalling conditions—become widely known beyond a handful of specialists. Although they preceded the Third Reich by many decades, the camps’ newfound notoriety has led many to ask to what extent they anticipated the horrors of the Holocaust. Were they designed for mass killing, a misbegotten attempt at modernization, or something else entirely? A Sad Fiasco confronts this difficult question head-on, reconstructing the actions of colonial officials in both British South Africa and German South-West Africa as well as the experiences of internees to explore both the similarities and the divergences between the African camps and their Nazi-era successors.
Author : Paul Garson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1476665451
Through both World Wars, young African conscripts from Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, the Congo and elsewhere found themselves fighting for their colonial rulers, facing unknown enemies in unknown lands. German soldiers regarded their African enemies with a mixture of curiosity and malice, sometimes posing for snapshots with black POWs, sometimes summarily executing them on the battlefield. Mistreated by their own commanders during wartime, African troops had to fight for equal postwar compensation. This book, featuring a collection of never before published photos taken by German soldiers, records the fate of many French Colonial African soldiers during World War I and World War II. The author presents the images in the historical context of imperialism and colonialism.
Author : Sarah Ann Frank
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 14,72 MB
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1496207777
Hostages of Empire is a social, cultural, and political history of the colonial prisoners of war.
Author : Raffael Scheck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1107056810
This book discusses the experience of French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. It illustrates that the colonial prisoners' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German guards led to clashes with a colonial administration eager to return to a discriminatory routine following the war.
Author : Casper W. Erichsen
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Concentration camps
ISBN : 9789054480648
Author : Anne Samson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1788314441
The vast military campaigns in Africa during World War I were among the most ambitious of the Great War. Many histories, however, have regarded these campaigns as side-shows to the war on the Western Front. World War One in Africa looks afresh at the impact of the strategy of the German and Allied campaigns, and at the great rivalry between General Jan Christian Smuts, who took on the German forces in East Africa, and General Lettow-Vorbeck, celebrated as the only German general to occupy British territory and whose troops finished the war undefeated. Using primary material from British and South African archives, this book is a detailed study of the giants of the campaign, and the battles which would shape the outcome of the Great War as well as the future of the African continent and the British Empire.
Author : Jürgen Zimmerer
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
The 1904 war that broke out in present day Namibia after the Herero tribe rose against an oppressive colonial regime--and the German army's brutal suppression of that uprising--are the focus of this collection of essays. Exploring the annihilation of both the Herero and Nama people, this selection from prominent researchers of German imperialism considers many aspects of the war and shows how racism, concentration camps, and genocide in the German colony foreshadow Hitler's Third Reich war crimes.
Author : Richard Binder
Publisher : Richard Binder
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 2015-02-21
Category :
ISBN : 9780988407954
World War II lasted six years. That's 2,194 days. What happened in those six years? In this new "diary," author Richard Binder takes a radical new approach to telling the story of the worst conflict humanity has ever experienced. Instead of trying to cover everything, he relates the happenings of just 366 days, the length of a single year. Choosing events great and small from the beginning of the war to its bitter end, he gives you a fascinating and sometimes shocking look at things you know from your high-school history and things you may never have heard of.
