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Title: | From destruction to extermination: genocidal escalation in Germany's war against the Herero, 1904 |
Author: | Häussler, Matthias |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | Journal of Namibian Studies (ISSN 1863-5954) |
Issue: | 10 |
Pages: | 55-81 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Namibia Germany |
Subjects: | genocide Herero revolt military operations Herero historiography colonial history |
Abstract: | In this discussion of the war between the Ovaherero and the German Empire in Namibia in 1904 the hitherto accepted notion of a genocidal strategy, planned and executed by the Germans right from the beginning of the war until its bitter end is refuted as teleological. New positions in genocide studies and the emergence of hitherto ignored and new material challenge this conventional wisdom. The war and its gradually escalating violence are argued to be the result of the total failure of German strategy. A 'genocidal war of pacification', rather than a genocide ensued. The author first critiques Horst Drechsler's classical variant of the genocide hypothesis (1966). Next, he looks at Henrik Lundtofte's refined 2003 version of this hypothesis to conclude with his own interpretation. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |