The Holocaust as Colonial Genocide

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction: Explaining the Holocaust

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3. Pre-Nazi Discourse: Racial Imperialism

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4. Pre-Nazi Praxis: Imperial-Colonial Models

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5. Nazi Discourse: Colonial Fantasies of ‘Space’ and ‘Race’

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6. Nazi Praxis: Colonial War and Genocide

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7. Conclusion: Accounting for the Holocaust

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8. Back Matter

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Based on an exploration of both pre-Nazi and Nazi theory and practice, Pete Kakel challenges the dominant narrative of the murder of European Jewry, illuminating the Holocaust's decidedly imperial-colonial origins, context, and content in a book of interest to students, teachers, and lay readers, as well as specialist and non-specialist scholars.

• Adolf Hitler
• Europe
• Genocide
• Holocaust

• Johns Hopkins University Centre for Liberal Arts, USA

  Carroll P. Kakel

Carroll P. Kakel, III ('Pete') is a research historian and lecturer at The Johns Hopkins University Centre for Liberal Arts, USA. He is the author of The American West and the Nazi East: A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective.

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