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Early in 1904 war broke out in German South West Africa, when the Herero tribe rose up against an oppressive colonial regime. The German army despatched to the colony brutally suppressed the uprising and set about the systematic annihilation of the Herero and Nama people. This collection of essays considers many aspects of this war of extermination. Edward Neather adds an introduction that situates these events in the context for the great African land rush by European powers and shows how racism, concentration camps and genocide in the German colony foreshadow the crimes committed during Hitler s Third Reich.

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Anyone wishing to have a wider and comprehensive understanding of the German dimension of a conflict which was designed as a war of mass destruction is recommended to read this book Die Zeit As well as being a collection that brings together some of the most important researchers on German colonial imperialism in Namibia in a manner that would be easily accessible to undergraduate (German-speaking) readers, it also offers a useful starting point for those wishing to acquaint themselves quickly with the thematic parameters of current German research on German colonialism.

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Jurgen Zimmerer teaches history at the Center for 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Joachim Zeller teaches at the Technical University in Berlin. E. J. Neather is the author of Mastering German 2, Previsions, and Realisations.

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