Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:43:54 -0500 From: H-GERMAN EDITOR Dan Rogers To: Multiple recipients of list H-GERMAN Subject: German colonialism/Herero massacre There are two messages below: 1) Submitted by: Diethelm Prowe The best overview of German colonialism is Woodruff D. Smith's _The German Colonial Empire_ (U of NC Press, 1978). It has a good synopsis of the Herero slaughter. On the Herero rebellion and massacre, consult Jon Bridgman, _The Revolt of the Hereros_ (U. of Cal Press, 1981) and Horst Drechsler, _Suedwestafrika under deutscher Kolonialherrschaft_, tranlated as _Let Us Die Fighting: The Struggle of the Herero and Nama Against German Imperialism, 1884-1905_ (London, 1980). All these authors and others have certainly pointed to the link between this massacre and the Nazi Holocaust. One of my students also wrote a senior honors thesis on this link in 1989, specifically in contrast to Ernst Nolte's speculations on the origins of the Holocaust during the Historikerstreit. You could probably get a copy from her, if you contacted her at RZrimsek@Carleton.edu or Ms. Becky Zrimsek, Associate Director of Alumni Affairs, Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057. Diethelm Prowe Prof. of History Carleton College DProwe@Carleton.edu 2) Submitted by: Sybil Milton There is additional information on the extreme forms of racial segregation and practices (re: intermarriage, miscegenation) in the early literature on Fischer, Lenz and many of the later directors of KWI in Berlin. German colonial Africa seems to have been in part a testing ground for some of the more bizarre anthropological, racial inferiority, and sterilization theories that were later applied against Jews, Gypsies, and Afro-Germans through the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute after 1933. The exhibition "Der Wert des Menschen" published by Hentrich has an excellent article on this by Annegret Ehmann and Gabrielle Czarnowski. Sybil Milton .