The birth of the<i>Ostland</i>out of the spirit of colonialism: a postcolonial perspective on the Nazi policy of conquest and extermination

Zimmerer, Jürgen

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“…Unnoticed by those who have fixed their eyes and minds upon denying the 'genocide thesis', a wide Á and differentiated Á consensus has emerged in the debate in Germany that the Schutztruppe had indeed committed genocide in 1904-8 in Namibia; controversy focuses on a quite different issue, namely the relationship, if any, between the genocide in Namibia and the Holocaust. 17 Hofmann and others, eager to find allies, simply include authors like Birthe Kundrus into their 'kraal' Á probably on the assumption that they are not of one mind with known proponents of the 'genocide thesis' such as Jü rgen Zimmerer (2005a) or Henning Melber (2005b). By so doing they brush over a truly fundamental difference of concerns: with some vacillations, Kundrus (2006) certainly is critical of the very notion of genocide and she raises an array of methodological issues that are of great relevance to historiographic debate.…”

Section: The Namibian Connection In Denialismmentioning

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Entangled history and politics: Negotiating the past between Namibia and Germany

Kößler¹

2008

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

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The relationship between Namibia and Germany is marked by intense exchanges about the meaning and the consequences of the colonial wars of the early twentieth century in the erstwhile German colony. This engages various state and civil society actors including groups from across the political spectrum in Germany, whereas in Namibia the debate concerns the descendants of the victims on the one hand and German-speaking Namibians on the other.The article explores this discursive situation and brings out a range of relationships and interactions to be understood as expressions of an entangled history that eschews attempts of appropriation on one side. The problems emerge most poignantly in terms of the still ongoing exchanges around the denial of genocide in 1904Á8 which, given that the framework of the debate is predicated to considerable measure on German history, inevitably points to the Holocaust. A further strand of acting out and negotiating historical responsibility concerns the mode of apology and redress which remains a contended question. Not least, this involves an incoherent set of state and non-state actors on both sides. Here, the call for dialogue made particularly by Namibians raises the sensitive issues of intercultural communication.

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Section: The Namibian Connection In Denialismmentioning

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Entangled history and politics: Negotiating the past between Namibia and Germany

Kößler¹

2008

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

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“…However, dehumanization practices and beliefs that mingled racism and classism were increasingly imported into Europe (Zimmerer 2005), a situation that strongly helped the emergence of total war (Ferguson 2007). During the Spanish Civil War (1936War ( -1939, Reds, a blanket term applied to all those who backed the Republic, came to replace the savage: enemies were considered to be no more Spaniards than the Moroccans or Guineans.…”

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Archaeologies of Internment

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Moshenska²

2011

One World Archaeology

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“…Yet the boomerang effect is absent in many settler-colonial contexts, which-if settlers are successful in forming independent states-will ultimately lack a metropole entirely. The historical literature commenting on Arendt primarily asks whether and how boomerang effects took place empirically (Gerwarth and Malinowski, 2009;Grosse, 2006;Zimmerer, 2004Zimmerer, , 2005. Meanwhile, scholars critical of Arendt's Eurocentrism have challenged the ways in which her attention to such effects never directly engages-or explicitly degrades and dehumanizes-the perspectives and interests of the colonized (Bernasconi, 2007;Dossa, 1980;Gines, 2014;Norton, 1995;Presbey, 1997;Rothberg, 2009).…”

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“Nothing much had happened”: Settler colonialism in Hannah Arendt

Temin

2019

European Journal of Political Theory

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Hannah Arendt’s account of imperialism has become an unlikely source of inspiration for scholars invested in anti-colonial and postcolonial critique. However, the role of settler colonialism in her thought has come under far less scrutiny. This essay reconstructs Arendt’s account of settler-colonization. It argues that Arendt’s republican analysis of imperialism hinges on her notion of the boomerang effect, which is absent in settler-colonial contexts. Arendt recognized some of the distinctive features of settler expansionism but reproduced many of the ideologies that sustain practices of settler-colonial conquest. This interpretation sheds light on the promises and limits of contemporary retrievals of Arendt’s analysis and critique of imperialism by foregrounding the specificity of settler colonialism as an axis of ongoing colonial violence.

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The birth of theOstlandout of the spirit of colonialism: a postcolonial perspective on the Nazi policy of conquest and extermination

Cited by 59 publications

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Entangled history and politics: Negotiating the past between Namibia and Germany

Entangled history and politics: Negotiating the past between Namibia and Germany

Archaeologies of Internment

“Nothing much had happened”: Settler colonialism in Hannah Arendt

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