Военная история / German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence

Название: German Colonial Wars and the Context of Military Violence
Автор: Susanne Kuss
Издательство: Harvard University Press
Год: 2017
Страниц: 397
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 24 MB

Germany fought three major colonial wars from 1900 to 1908: the Boxer War in China, the Herero and Nama War in Southwest Africa, and the Maji Maji War in East Africa. Recently, historians have emphasized the role of German military culture in shaping the horrific violence of these conflicts, tracing a line from German atrocities in the colonial sphere to those committed by the Nazis during World War II. Susanne Kuss dismantles such claims in a close examination of Germany’s early twentieth-century colonial experience. Despite acts of unquestionable brutality committed by the Kaiser’s soldiers, she finds no direct path from Windhoek, site of the infamous massacre of the Herero people, to Auschwitz.